As internet access grows across Liberia, thousands of poor families are falling victim to increasingly sophisticated online scams promising fake jobs, travel programs and scholarships, draining life-savings and deepening economic hardship while police warn they still have few tools to stop the fraud even as lawmakers push a new bill to strengthen protections and enforcement. Joyclyn Wea reports in this social media Video. To read more about this story click this link: https://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/liberia-as-internet-use-surges-thousands-of-poor-families-are-being-scammed-a-new-bill-will-help-but-police-warn-they-still-have-few-options-to-stop-it/

This story was a collaboration with New Narratives as part of the Investigating Liberia Project. Funding was provided by the Swedish Embassy in Liberia. The funder had no say in the story’s content.