Al Jazeera Documentaries

Fool’s Gold: Inside Ghana’s Million Dollar Scamming Syndicates (2019x2)

: 27, 2019

We go undercover in Ghana to expose gold scammers tricking foreign investors out of huge sums of money. In 2011, Ghana was Africa‘s second-largest producer of gold. In recent years, it has been home to a multibillion-dollar industry which, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity, accounts for nearly half of the country’s exports.