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: 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 – FrontPage Africa Online

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.