Cyber-Crime in Ghana

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kpata 10 years ago

This crime is all over the world one just have to play smart. What about greedy Ghanaian girls been video taped having sex with foreigners all over the net?

This crime is all over the world one just have to play smart. What about greedy Ghanaian girls been video taped having sex with foreigners all over the net?
JOEMOORE 10 years ago

Good the police need to check every online activities, and every internet caffe need to ask for and register every costumers ID informations and the time they start using the computer and the time they will finished using it ...
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Good the police need to check every online activities, and every internet caffe need to ask for and register every costumers ID informations and the time they start using the computer and the time they will finished using it before given them access to the computer so that if there is any crime, they check the IPs address and who used the computer for that particular time.
because computer regisre every IPS address informations and times for every posting.
cool cat USA 10 years ago

Think twice, don't open unknown mails and don't be stupid to fall into their trap

Think twice, don't open unknown mails and don't be stupid to fall into their trap
LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

Mr Sakyi, this is a good piece. The growing threat of Cyber-crime in Ghana is very serious. Astonishingly, those cyber criminals are steps ahead of Ghana's Police Service. Ghana Police Service simply lack the skills and techn ...
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Mr Sakyi, this is a good piece. The growing threat of Cyber-crime in Ghana is very serious. Astonishingly, those cyber criminals are steps ahead of Ghana's Police Service. Ghana Police Service simply lack the skills and technology in fighting e-crimes. Ghana's cyberspace is not being policed by the Government, and that's why most Ghanaian and Nigerian fraudsters are virtually turning Ghana into a source of major 'fraud scams'. The daily 'fraud scams' emails sent from Ghana and by people purported to be Ghanaians is denting the county's reputation and image.

What the Government of Ghana is not envisaging or realising is the fact that in this Internet Age, Cyber-crimes have gone past "credit-card fraud". The West and other major Developing countries are fast developing their Cyber-Warfare capabilities to attack their adversaries. There's a growing threat of attacks to Ghana's internet service, banking system, national security and electronic communication systems by hostile nations, terrorists and organised criminals. Combating the threats of cyber-attacks and fighting e-crimes are not easy tasks. The Government of Ghana must invest heavily in a Police Cyber-Crime Unit. To even minimise the threat of cyber attacks and combat e-crimes, the country needs state of the art computer technology installation, and recruit professional IT experts. The Police Cyber Unit should be trained in digital crime detection and equipped with digital forensic skills. I do agree the Government should make efforts at recruiting some of the exceptionally talented teenagers involved in "419" to use their hacking skills in fighting e-crimes in Ghana.
AKWELE 10 years ago

Indeed, it takes a lot of advanced technology skills to combat the cyber criminals. Sooner than later, it's gonna go viral and a lot of people including the government will be adversely affected. The sooner we act, the bett ...
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Indeed, it takes a lot of advanced technology skills to combat the cyber criminals. Sooner than later, it's gonna go viral and a lot of people including the government will be adversely affected. The sooner we act, the better it will be for everyone.
Paa Kwesi Mintah 10 years ago

Greetings cousin. As soon I saw the topic on the News page feature listing, I knew "Cyber Crime in Ghana" was your authorship.

I'm going to educate you on this topic so sit tight and listen well. You just have a layman's p ...
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Greetings cousin. As soon I saw the topic on the News page feature listing, I knew "Cyber Crime in Ghana" was your authorship.

I'm going to educate you on this topic so sit tight and listen well. You just have a layman's passing knowledge of cyber crime, yet throw together jargons and 419 to falsely claim authority of this topic, while burying your ignorance in another insipid article to endear yourself to your dwindling readership.

First, note that there's absolutely NO cyber crime in Ghana. Ghanaians are not computer savvy enough to commit a cyber crime.

The mass emailing or Spam is nothing sophisticated to be considered a cyber crime. Infact, it's perfectly legal to send mass unsolicited mail with false content. The suckers who responds such false come-ons are the 10% idiots the mass marketing strategy is aimed at.

Also note that criminal strategy to swindle mostly foreigners, named after the Nigerian penal code, section 419, started way before the advent of the Internet, as we know it.

The 419 scam precedes the Internet age. Most of those Nigerian solicitations started in the early 1980's through the regular post office mail. Infact it wasn't extremely successful at its inception when that scam wasn't well known.

The Internet and digital age transformed 419 to another level, as it reached millions of people around the globe at the same time. Again be reminded that sending mass mailing or spam is not illegal.

For being a scholar, I hold you to higher standard than any of the non Winneba authors here and find you disappointing all the time.

You opened your article with the statement:

"It is said that an idle hand will find something to do, good or evil"

How does that statement relate to sentence following it in the first paragraph. You didn't establish any relationship. That's bad writing.

The rest of your article devolves into your usual listology and for being a Senior Lecturer at ZCAS, I'll hold your barefoot to the fire.

You wrote:

"There are many other ways we can transform the negative use of the internet into positive advantages in the fields of e-health, e -learning, e-tourism, e-transport, home-working or telecommuting, e-governance, e-tailing, e-marketing, e-agriculture, and for driving SMEs."

Perhaps you've heard these "e-terms" being bandied about in foreign journals and news articles and want to extend that to Ghana, where we have a hard time keeping a light bulb bright for 3hrs.

Let me help you with your Listology trip while you're at. How about e-Aboakyir? How about e-Dentsifo and e-Tuafo? How about e-Nenyi Winneba? And you expect your world wide readership to understand the acronym you wear like a glove, "SME"? After reading this poor article of yours, I'll probably think "SME" means "Some Messy Experience". Am I right?

Can a Nenyi Kwesi Sakyi Atta article (NKSAA) be complete without a babble dribble that reads: "We need...(fill in the blank)...more acronyms, like NKSAA, I guess.?

You wrote:

"We should encourage our school kids to have e-books, e-libraries and state-of-the-art IT laboratories, because if they do not get up to speed with global trends, they will be left behind by the rest of the world in the global village, with its gulf of global divide"

"kids to have e-books, state of the art IT labs etc"? Are you nuts, cousin? I'll let others harass you on this score. It's too hilarious.

You wrote:
I remember in the 60s, I used to visit the library at Sufflet House in Winneba to borrow books to read"

My goodness, you do remember Sufflet House? I'm still smiling. That's very impressive, cousin. That's the only gem in this poor article of yours.

Now let's have some tutorials on what constitute a real cyber crime:

When a tech savvy programmer, can send you a sinister applet, clone your server, and serve you Trojans and mirror you hard drive remotely to steal valuable documents, passwords etc that threatens your identity and finances, that is considered cyber crime.

When a tech savvy programmer can crack you wireless connection and clone your hard drive, or that of a bank or major financial/commercial institution to retrieve credit card account numbers and passwords, that's a cyber crime.

The low tech crime of misrepresenting oneself to lure unsuspecting paramours and underage kids is considered a crime, not a cyber crime. This is because the crime takes place outside of cyberspace.

Luring a minor from a chatroom or Facebook for illicit encounters will draw a criminal charge that has nothing to do with cyber crime.

Selling stolen items online is not a cyber crime but real life crime without the qualification of cyber crime.

Engaging the illicit services of a prostitute online or on the street bears the same charges in court without the definite qualification of "cyber crime', because the infraction is the crime, regardless of the space it take place.

Perverts who solicit minors online to engage in illicit lewd behavior are not charge with "cyber crime" but the criminal offense on the books for aiding and abetting minor delinquency etc. This is the case in the USA.

Advertisers send millions of junk mail daily, with all kinds of fantastic claims, such as erectile dysfunction and pills for every ailment. It's all perfectly legal, as our Ghanaian brothers are doing. Should they score a hit to lure someone to Ghana and unable to fulfill their end of the deal, that's when they can be arrested.

You cannot arrest anyone for sending mass email. There's no law on the books in Ghana against cyber Sakawa, a perfectly legal endeavor.

419 preceded the Internet so rewrite your article.

Saaaalut, from forehead to waist, with a thunderous footstomp and uproarious cheer, whaaaaam.
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Kobena 10 years ago

Bro PK,
I am impressed! I don't know what you do, but you seem to be pretty much an all-rounder. Don't be too hard on Bro Kwesi Atta, though, he serves a very useful purpose, raising many pertinent issues.

What we need t ...
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Bro PK,
I am impressed! I don't know what you do, but you seem to be pretty much an all-rounder. Don't be too hard on Bro Kwesi Atta, though, he serves a very useful purpose, raising many pertinent issues.

What we need to do is to discuss the issues and see how they can benefit our dear country! Saluuut ooooo!!!!!
Kobia Amenfi Oti Akenten 10 years ago

Cyber crime dimension by Nigerians is at dangerously alarming levels such that they can break into national treasury and steal millions of dollars. They could do this with some selfish Ghanaians, so you are totally wrong in i ...
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Cyber crime dimension by Nigerians is at dangerously alarming levels such that they can break into national treasury and steal millions of dollars. They could do this with some selfish Ghanaians, so you are totally wrong in inferring that Cyber-crime does not exist in Ghana. Do you live in an ivory tower, Paa Kwesi Mintah?
Sakawa Dude 10 years ago

Good one there!!
Ask him again & again over & over again!!!
Perhaps he still lives in the Stone Age Era not even in an ivory tower; na waa with this PKM!!!!!!!!!!!
He's always best with his lenghty emp ...
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Good one there!!
Ask him again & again over & over again!!!
Perhaps he still lives in the Stone Age Era not even in an ivory tower; na waa with this PKM!!!!!!!!!!!
He's always best with his lenghty empty bogus rejoinders.
Paa Kwesi Mintah 10 years ago

Sakawa Dude,

I think with a 1 Cedi hammer you too can break into the national treasury. Do you promise to share your loot when successful?

Sakawa Dude,

I think with a 1 Cedi hammer you too can break into the national treasury. Do you promise to share your loot when successful?
Paa Kwesi Mintah 10 years ago

Kobia Amenfi Oti Akenten wrote:

"Cyber crime dimension by Nigerians is at dangerously alarming levels such that they can break into national treasury and steal millions of dollars"

FYI Ghana's national treasure sits in ...
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Kobia Amenfi Oti Akenten wrote:

"Cyber crime dimension by Nigerians is at dangerously alarming levels such that they can break into national treasury and steal millions of dollars"

FYI Ghana's national treasure sits in ceramic bowl with a lock cover. One does not need a computer to break into it, but a sledge hammer.

Be afraid of a Nigerian with a sledge hammer than a computer.

You've exposed one of the weakness of our national treasury, which consist of a few diamonds, ten bars of gold and a diamond encrusted replica of your genius brain.

Well done, genius.
destro 10 years ago

are u done talking about the greedy bastards...leave us alone

are u done talking about the greedy bastards...leave us alone
From over sea 10 years ago

First. The composition of cyber scam letters from Ghana are in the worst English possible.
Noboby will be able to red them. The letters from Nigeria are also not the dangerous ones. The English writing is very good, but..... ...
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First. The composition of cyber scam letters from Ghana are in the worst English possible.
Noboby will be able to red them. The letters from Nigeria are also not the dangerous ones. The English writing is very good, but.....the store is always poor and not to be seen as true. What is dangerous is the dating scam from Ghana. In this field no good English is necessary. Here the interaction goes not through the pencil but through the mind. Take care you lonely people. Never contact a Ghanese who falls in love with you after 2 days or 2 weeks.
CyberCop 10 years ago

....reading thru your comment, with your spellings, i've located you already; i'm not using my sophiscated software to track & trace you, no need mr. from over sea, doeiii.

....reading thru your comment, with your spellings, i've located you already; i'm not using my sophiscated software to track & trace you, no need mr. from over sea, doeiii.
USELESS GOVERNMENT 10 years ago

FOOLISH GREEDY FOOLS.. CAN YOU PEOPLE GIVE US WORK??? STUPID USELESS PEOPLE YOU SUCK THE LAST PENNY OUR MOTHER'S GET FROM THE MARKET AND WHAT DO YOU WANT WE THE SONS OF THE FAMILY DO TO FEED THEM.. FOOLISH GOVERNMENT.. FOO ...
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FOOLISH GREEDY FOOLS.. CAN YOU PEOPLE GIVE US WORK??? STUPID USELESS PEOPLE YOU SUCK THE LAST PENNY OUR MOTHER'S GET FROM THE MARKET AND WHAT DO YOU WANT WE THE SONS OF THE FAMILY DO TO FEED THEM.. FOOLISH GOVERNMENT.. FOOLS
corrupt politicians 10 years ago

Cyber-Crime in Ghana is caused by poverty and poverty in the society is caused by these wicked corrupt politicians

Cyber-Crime in Ghana is caused by poverty and poverty in the society is caused by these wicked corrupt politicians
Black American Male 10 years ago

I need 5,000 US-based adult volunteers to help me end poverty the US
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Part I:

Yes, I said it! I need 5,000 US-based adult volunteers to send me your first name/ last name and US email a ...
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I need 5,000 US-based adult volunteers to help me end poverty the US
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Part I:

Yes, I said it! I need 5,000 US-based adult volunteers to send me your first name/ last name and US email address. Once I have the said amount of people mention, I will send each person an affiliate marketing ad where if you join me for FREE I'll make $20 and you'll make $20 (once we both meet the 'qualifications' of the US-based company that will provide the income). For those mathematically-inclined, you know 5,000 US participants online times $20 equals a $100,000 income gain before federal and state taxation. Realize too, craigslist has my membership ID in hand so like craigslist I do not have time for bs. Am nearing retirement as a baby-boomer, just like 10,000 US baby-boomers per day are now retiring.

Part II:

What will I do with such capital gained, that could create a ground-swell of participation by US-based adults and US-based companies wishing to compete that could end poverty within the US in less than 10 years, if all sane US people pay attention to the power of the internet and networking collectively? I will take the names and emails of the 5,000 folks that helped me gain the $100,000 income (startup) and send them online, a few people per week, my second blueprint. My knowledge of how a US legal resident or citizen can reach a $10,000 per week income within half a year by following my blueprint. Mathematically, I should cover all US-based 5,000 participants in 2 years or 104 weeks offering startup loans, interest-free, with a 90 day payback in full agreement. As participants' incomes increase online, other US-based companies will peep what is going on nationwide and join in to create the same option for other adult US-based people. Such is capitalism and online networking at its best. All of America can benefit if diligent, teachable? Know too I will involve you in 3 or 4 US-based companies online to fulfill this goal. This is not "crowd-funding", donations or common fundraising as I've ask you for none of your own money.
I offer you an option instead of our President Obama and the Republicans never coming to terms after 2 elections, the social security problem we now face, continued massive lost of US jobs plus the possibility of no mail delivery on Saturdays!
Regarding US incomes, last I remember the US President's income technically is $400,000. How many US doctors and lawyers make such an income? You won't be able to touch the level of income most of the nation's CEOs of major companies make, not to mention their bonuses, but do the math:
$10,000 per week times 52 weeks is? Would such an income help you, your immediate family and your extended family improve plus reduce the US deficit?
Thank you for this moment.

I rest my case and await your decision?

PS: As the plan unfolds, US accountant(s) and lawyer(s) will be involved.

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bro 10 years ago

today u cant even make frnds outside ur world coz we all are refered to as "scammers" and the interesting part is their formatis as old as Adam, the 1st man...eg cant use my credit card here in ghana n i need cash...shame on ...
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today u cant even make frnds outside ur world coz we all are refered to as "scammers" and the interesting part is their formatis as old as Adam, the 1st man...eg cant use my credit card here in ghana n i need cash...shame on thses guys..they can do better than this
bro 10 years ago

today u cant even make frnds outside ur world coz we all are refered to as "scammers" and the interesting part is their formatis as old as Adam, the 1st man...eg cant use my credit card here in ghana n i need cash...shame on ...
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today u cant even make frnds outside ur world coz we all are refered to as "scammers" and the interesting part is their formatis as old as Adam, the 1st man...eg cant use my credit card here in ghana n i need cash...shame on thses guys..they can do better than this
joedirt 10 years ago

maybe if they new how to track IP addresses from the scammers computer they will have better luck.

maybe if they new how to track IP addresses from the scammers computer they will have better luck.
sahadatu 10 years ago

The article has been helpful and educative in my research on cyber crime. Thanks

The article has been helpful and educative in my research on cyber crime. Thanks

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