Following her extradition, US authorities have now disclosed specifics on Mona Faiz Montrage, alias Hajia4Reall,'s arrest in the UK.
Evidently, the most recent information is not unlike from prior rumors that were circulated when she was first detained on November 10, 2022, at Heathrow Airport in London.
Montrage was turned over to US police on May 12, 2023, after spending six months with UK authorities. On Monday, she made an appearance in Manhattan federal court.
The Ghanaian social media celebrity is in court for allegedly taking part in a string of multimillion dollar fraud schemes.
Federal authorities claim that she conned older, unmarried American men and women out of almost $2 million through a depraved lonely hearts scheme.
The maximum sentence for each of the charges against Montrage, which each carry a potential 20-year prison term, is one count of conspiracy to conduct wire fraud, one count of wire fraud, one count of money laundering conspiracy, and one offence of money laundering.
She is also accused of conspiring to receive stolen property, which has a maximum five-year jail penalty, and receiving stolen property, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
According to court documents, this is how Montrage defrauded her victims of $2 million in money.
Montrage collaborated with a group of West African con artists between 2013 and 2019 who sent emails, SMS, and social media messages to deceive individuals into believing they were in relationships with them using fictitious identities.
According to court documents, the con artists would then persuade the victims to send money to them under false pretences, such as payments to assist phony US Army personnel in Afghanistan, payments to help transport gold into the US from abroad, and payments to end fake FBI investigations.
One victim claimed that Montrage conned her into transferring her $89,000 over 82 wire transfers under the guise of helping her father's farm in Ghana.
After using her own name to call the victim several times, Montrage deceived them into thinking the couple was married in Ghana by mailing them a tribal marriage certificate.
Several additional victims who had been defrauded by Montrage and her network of con artists allegedly gave money to her as well, according to court documents.
In total, Montrage obtained nearly $2 million in illegal transactions through bank accounts she held in the Bronx and other locations, including one set up under the fictitious name of a clothing firm, 4Reall Designs.
She allegedly gave other gang members the stolen money after laundering it.
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