A 23-year-old man, Rahaman, has been sentenced to six years in prison for deceiving two mobile money vendors and stealing their money. He was charged with four counts and ordered to refund the money he illegally took from the vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to CSP Alex Odonkor, Rahaman deceived Evelyn Lartey, a mobile money vendor at Wassa Asikuma, into sending him GH\u00a21,000 to his account. He also deceived her into transferring an additional GH\u00a22,000, promising that his brother would bring GH\u00a24,000 in cash to her. However, he never returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rahaman used the same method to deceive another victim, Appiah, into transferring GH\u00a24,000 to his mobile account. Fortunately, he was caught and arrested by the Wassa Akropong police. After investigation, he was found guilty and sentenced to six years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked what he used the money for, Rahaman claimed he used it to play games, but unfortunately, he lost. This case highlights the need for mobile money vendors to be cautious when dealing with customers and to verify transactions carefully. Similar cases of mobile money fraud have been reported in the past, resulting in prison sentences for the perpetrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Young Man Sentenced to 6 Years for Defrauding Mobile Money Vendors<\/p>\n
A 23-year-old man, Rahaman, has been sentenced to six years in prison for deceiving two mobile money vendors and stealing their money. He was charged with four counts and ordered to refund the money he illegally took from the vendors.<\/p>\n
According to CSP Alex Odonkor, Rahaman deceived Evelyn Lartey, a mobile money vendor at Wassa Asikuma, into sending him GH\u00a21,000 to his account. He also deceived her into transferring an additional GH\u00a22,000, promising that his brother would bring GH\u00a24,000 in cash to her. However, he never returned.<\/p>\n
Rahaman used the same method to deceive another victim, Appiah, into transferring GH\u00a24,000 to his mobile account. Fortunately, he was caught and arrested by the Wassa Akropong police. After investigation, he was found guilty and sentenced to six years in prison.<\/p>\n
When asked what he used the money for, Rahaman claimed he used it to play games, but unfortunately, he lost. This case highlights the need for mobile money vendors to be cautious when dealing with customers and to verify transactions carefully. Similar cases of mobile money fraud have been reported in the past, resulting in prison sentences for the perpetrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}