The Ghana Police Service has served a mobile money fraud alert.
According to the Police, they have noticed a re-emergence of a common type of money fraud lately.
The Service has therefore cautioned the general public against the trend.
In a statement dated March 17, 2021, the Service urged the public to take steps to prevent falling victim to the scam.
“There May be other modes of mobile money fraud, nevertheless, the command has noticed more reported cases in the ‘mode of operation’ sequentially listed below,” it said.
It said the “fraudster sends an SMS notification to the phone of a targeted victim, indicating that he/she has been credited with money, for winning a promotion. Few minutes later, the fraudster calls back but this time under the pretext of being an employee of a telecommunication network, and warns that their system has detected attempts by some person (s) to defraud him/her.”
“Based on this, the targeted victim is advised to proceed to a nearby mobile money vendor to get the scam attempts blocked. At the mobile money vendor, the fraudster requests to speak with the operator directly n the victim’s phone. On the blind side of the victim, the fraudster authorizes a cash transfer from the Vendor’s account to his, which the victim is expected to make payments.”
Below is the full notice
By Melvin Tarlue