Fraud on MoMo increased After SIM Card Registration- Ghanaians get alarm
Scores of Ghanaians, especially customers of the Telecos have expressed alarm over the increasing level of frauds involving Mobile Money transaction despite registration of SIM Card by the National Communication Authority ( NCA) .
Some members of public who spoke to EXPRESSNEWSGHANA said they have fallen victims to the MoMo fraudulent activities.
The situation, they said is getting out of hand and that government must to take action on some of the telecommunication on who’s network the criminals break in to perpetrate the crime.
” My mother, an old lady has fallen victim to one of them ( fraudster ) call her claiming he has mistakenly sent money to her and she should send it back. Unknown to my Mom, when she check she saw the message, 100 cedis, not knowing to her it was a fraud and scam, so she resend the money and in approving the transaction they took her PIN and withdraw all money in her account. Many people have fallen similarly, so the question is how did they get her number. She is not using a smartphone where you can say she uploaded an App, this is an old lady using a small phone we now call “Yam’, so the Telecos my wake up,” a lady who Identified herself as Nancy, recounted her mother’s predicament in the hands of MoMo frausdters .
Meanwhile Madam Janet Asana Nabla, General Secretary of the opposition People’s National Convention (PNC), has called on parliament to summon telecommunication network provider, MTN Ghana, for questioning regarding the countless fraudulent activities that people use their SIM cards to commit in the country on a daily basis.
Madam Nabla, in an exclusive interview with A1 NEWS, a Bolgatanfa based radio station said, the issue of fraud in Ghana has risen to alarming levels, hence the need for authorities like the Parliament of Ghana, which represents the people, to intervene and put MTN on its toes to immediately put measures in place to stop fraudsters from using their SIM cards for those activities.
“MTN is taking the people of Ghana for granted, and I have said it and I am saying it again. The parliament of Ghana needs to invite MTN to the house to answer questions, pretending to be the numerous fraudsters using their network to defraud people. MTN is not the only network provider in the country. Why is it that we have Tigo Cash and Vodafone Cash, and the fraudsters don’t use them? But it is only when it comes to your network that fraudsters are using it to defraud Ghanaians?”
According to Madam Nabla, because of MTN’s lackadaisical attitude towards addressing the fraudulent activities relating to their network, fraudsters are able to use their numbers to carry out these criminal activities, which she describes as worrying.
“What is even more painful is that, if you report these fraudsters to MTN, they do nothing about it. They will lie to us to give us the numbers, and if you give out the number, they just throw them away. Because if MTN were to be doing something to these fraudsters by now there would have been a reduction but there is no reduction because MTN is doing nothing about it.”
Source: expressnewsghana.com
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