{"id":74936,"date":"2025-05-05T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74936"},"modified":"2025-05-05T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:48:09","slug":"facing-a-broken-economy-ghanas-tech-savvy-teens-turn-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/facing-a-broken-economy-ghanas-tech-savvy-teens-turn-to-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing a broken economy, Ghana&#8217;s tech-savvy teens turn to fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Eam7G.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=314&amp;y=150&amp;s=62&amp;d=62\" alt=\"Ghana's President John Mahama has promised to turn the economy around\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the dusty alleys of Nima, a shanty town in the heart of Ghana&#8217;s capital, a 17-year-old called Ghost reclines on a faded plastic chair inside a dimly lit internet cafe.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/facing-a-broken-economy-ghana-s-tech-savvy-teens-turn-to-fraud\/ar-AA1EaoKS?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=28bfde28f7d04f0f85082131314835e2&amp;ei=17\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In the dusty alleys of Nima, a shanty town in the heart of Ghana&#8217;s capital, a 17-year-old called Ghost reclines on a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/scam.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74937,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74936\/revisions\/74937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}