They are the base soldiers in a international scamming enterprise that's breaking hearts and stealing vast amounts of bucks.

An aspiring entrepreneur trawls Facebook for divorced and widowed women on the other side of the world in a tiny flat in Ghana, in west Africa.

The 27-year-old, whom calls himself Kweiku, is trying to find 'clients' — scammer parlance for victims who is able to online be conned into delivering cash.