As mobile money becoming more popular and widely used by Ghanaians, fraudsters on the other hand, are finding new ways and ideas to steal money from mobile money subscribers.
In this Article:
Ttricks that MTN mobile money fraudsters use
Intentionally sending you a message that your mobile money account is locked
Send you a spammy message
Calls you that your son or daughter has been admitted to the hospital and needs money for blood
What should you do when you receive a fraud MTN Mobile Money Call?
Ttricks that MTN mobile money fraudsters use
Intentionally sending you a message that your mobile money account is locked
This is what they do, you will first receive a text message from a random number telling you your account is blocked and then within a few minutes you will receive a call from them.
Here is the trick, when this fraudster calls you, he will pretend to be a mobile money merchant and has mistakenly sent money to you which was supposed to be sent to someone.
Then the fraudster will continue saying he was afraid you might withdraw the money and that’s why he reported your number for them to block so that you will not be able to withdraw the money.
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He will then ask you if you have seen a message like that, definitely you will confirm that you have received a message like that and after that this fraudster tell you to hold on for him to call the mobile money customer care for them to unblock your number.