Fraudsters have invaded Ghana’s leading mobile money transfer
platforms making it possible for some people to doubt the genuineness of the
platforms which help to boost financial inclusion in the country. In fact all players this industry are making frantic effort to stop the activities of these fraudsters by running basic security tips on airwaves and social media. The management of www.kutufam.com has decided to contribute its quota to
climb-down the activities of these criminal by sharing the fraudsters sneaky tricks to lure unsuspected subscribers with you. This situation should not put off to have mobile money wallet because it is convenient and accessible.
Types of mobile money fraud
==>False
Payment SMS: Fraudsters send false payment messages to subscriber. Fraudsters will call
and tell the recipient He/She the fraudster's mother is sick at
hospital, he wrongly transferred some amount to your wallet instead his sister at
hospital. The Fraudster will ask the money should be returned
to a named number.
How
to detect that it is false SMS
1. First check
your balance to find out if said amount has been deposited. If no money added
ignore the person.
2. Check if you
received such payment alert earlier with same transaction ID number
==>False
Cash out SMS: Fraudsters send false cash out messages to merchants for
authorization of which the physical cash is issued by the merchant to the
fraudster without the equivalent e-cash.
==>Cash out
Fraud: Customers are pushed payment approval prompt and lured to enter their
pin code in order to receive price won through Mobile Money.
==>Scam:
Fraudsters calling to dupe customers under the pretext of delivering goods from
abroad. Some fraudsters call and ask for specified amounts to be deposited into
a mobile money account, in exchange for goods from relatives/friends from
abroad.
==>Anonymous
calls from fraudsters: Customers receive calls from fraudsters after deposits
to transfer funds received with the claim being airtime.
==>False
Promotion: Customers are lured to authorize cash out transaction with the claim
of winning Mobile Money promotion.
==>False
Promotion: Customers
are lured to visit merchant point to redeem price won through Mobile Money.
==>False
Promotion SMS: Fraudulent
consumers send fake SMS to agents either from their own handsets or generated
from computers. The SMS looks genuine to the recipient.
NEVER GIVE YOUR MOBILE MONEY PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (PIN) TO ANY BODY
For MTN subscribers you Report fraud to
reportfraud@mtn.com.gh
mmfraud@mtn.com.gh
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