Despite the global economic hardship, Scammers and fraudsters are on the rise to milk innocent people. In an effort to educate and protect people from being scammed, this article has compiled latest and possible methods Scammers adopt.
1. Sending/asking for codes for reason: never entertain anyone asking for codes. Being it MOMO code, password to an account or epay- slip
2. Winning a promotion you never participated in: Do not entertain people who call you to send money because you have win a promotion, knowing well that you never participated in any.
3. Double your money like worldremit and other ponzi schemes: Do not deal with institutions not registered with Bank of Ghana.
4. Sending of text messages as if it were a momo transaction and later call for reverse sending: never reverse any money and ask the person to inform MTN or telco to reverse any money
5. After receiving momo from a known or unknown number and unknown person call for reversal: never reverse any money and ask the person to inform MTN or telco to reverse any money. (The money could actually be for you)
6. Fraud schemes using the following BITCASH or world remit or Safeway or Qnet or walfago or steward etc
7. Paying application fees for scholarships
8. Any institution/country giving out or sharing free money or data: On WhatsApp, they ask you click this link to recieve free money or data. It’s a spam and sometimes scam.
9. A supposed fetish priest calling to claim he/she has been paid to kill you and needs a better offer of payment: if you are afraid find another spiritual man of God but never deal with the person claiming so. He will milk your money.
10. National lottery and anything lotto online
11. Engaging G.E.S payroll issues facilitators not refered by a known person
12. Engaging G.E.S recruitments, postings and change of school facilitators not refered by known people.
13. Fixed matches or fixed odds: They ask you to pay money to buy it. Most of them are fake and you end up loosing money.
14. Controller arrears fraud where fraudster would provide credentials that match a CAGD officer and ask you to take a loan to balance your Legacy arrears
15. Engaging any recruitment connection men or middlemen not refered by known people:(They won’t have any sympathy/pity for you). There are uncountable reasons they can tell you why it did not work.
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