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Research Title:  	Am I Doing Something Wrong? The perspectives of Game Boys on Sakawa in Ghana
PhD Researcher: 	Abubakari Yushawu
Supervisors: 		Primary: Professor Mateusz Blaszczyk,; Auxiliary: Dr. Lukasz Moll
Affiliation: 	University of Wroclaw, Poland; Faculty of Social Science; Institute of Sociology
Contact: 		Email: yushawu.abubakari@uwr.edu.pl; Phone: +48517988264 
Consent Note
The current study is designed through the Institute of Sociology, the faculty of social science of the University of Wroclaw as part of an ongoing PhD project entitled: “Cybercrime as an Organized field: The Sociological Insight into the Online Romance Scam Industry in Ghana” to investigate the dimension at which ‘Game boys” perceive the “Game or Sakawa” in terms of its moral and legal dispositions.
 As a principal researcher in this project, I would like to request your kind participation in this project. Your involvement in this project as a respondent is highly appreciated. The research will be a form of conversation between you and the researcher about the topic. Most important to this study is the recognition of the participants’ rights and safety. This study ensures that the ethical conducts of the institute of sociology of the University of Wrocław, Polish Sociological Association Ethical Code enacted on 25th March 2012, and the Personal data processing code in the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and the Act on Personal Data Protection as of 28 May 2018 are adhered to. What this means is that, the following are prioritized in this study:
1.	No identifiable demographic data such as name, location, personal pictures, address, etc will be collected in this study
2.	The information you provide will be use for the purpose of research only and will not be subjected for commercial purposes
3.	You can opt out of the study at any time and the information you provided will be discarded from the research data
4.	The data you provided will only be used by the research team and no party shall have access to the information under any circumstance. 
In case you are ready to be part of this study, please sign this form or you can equally give me a verbal consent. In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me through my email or phone number. Thank you 

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Interview Guide
Areas	Questions	
Business Description	1.	What is the business all about? It’s interesting, tell me more about it
2.	When you want to start the process, what do you do first?
3.	What happens before the client agrees or pays?
4.	I am interest to know how you started this business. How did you start it?
5.	Why did you decide to do this business?
6.	What is difficult or easy to start? Tell me how you started
7.	How do you think this business has helped you, in terms of financially, or socially, or anyway that it helped you?
8.	What makes this business a good business?
9.	How about what makes it not good?	
Client Description	1.	Who are you client? I mean where do they usually come from?
2.	Why don’t you have clients in countries like …. 
3.	How do you know that someone can be a client?
4.	Tell me about your last or current client?
5.	Do you think your client is a good person?
6.	Has your opinion about your client change as you talk to them?
7.	Do you ever feel like actually meeting your client?
8.	Would you be real friends or maybe in a relationship with your client apart from seeing her in the game?
9.	Have you ever felt like you should not hurt your client or feel sympathy for your client? If yes or no, why?
10.	Is it possible your neighbor, or someone you know in-person could be your client? why and why not?	
Morality and Legality	1.	I am interested in what you think about when people say something is illegal or immoral. Could you tell me what you think?
2.	Do you think people should always follow the laws and the morality you talked about it?
3.	When should people not follow the these laws or morality? Could you give me an example?
4.	How about when people should strictly obey the laws or these morality?
5.	What do you think makes something immoral or illegal?
6.	Why do you think people sometimes act against the laws or social norms?
7.	Do you think the business or something about the business makes it immoral or illegal? What is it? Tell me more about it
8.	How do you deal with feelings of the immoral or illegal aspect of the business?
9.	Have you always thought about it from the beginning or it came to you after sometime? What happened?
10.	Have you ever considered stopping the business? Why and why not?
11.	Do your friends or family think you are doing something wrong because you are in this game?
12.	How do you feel about what they say?