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Money transfer thief busted

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  • Douglas. Bristol-UK` 8 years ago

    when will these monkeys called Ashantes desist from robbery??

  • Alovor 8 years ago

    I don't know where or which area of Ghana you come from, but i can envisage how frustrated you are in the UK. With no jobs available, probably perching at a friend's place and eating left overs from restaurants, you are defin ...
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  • ROMANO 8 years ago

    DOUGLASNKYIE IS A JAILBIRD. HE IS A FULL TIME DISH WASHER AND PART TIME SHOP LIFTER.

  • Pkirks 8 years ago

    I don't think the transaction can be true and if if is, then they have to ask him to show the police where the transaction is completed and they can arrest those operating there. Western union money transfer comes with a secr ...
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  • Obed Adore 8 years ago

    You are funny. There is someone inside the bank doing the cashing. After all the person behind the counter knows this so-called secret question or code, that is why he/she would only ask you to confirm it. So what are you tal ...
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  • Yaa 8 years ago

    Getting help from inside is the only reason he and his gang were able to operate because there is no way the gang can get a photo id for all the beneficiaries unless there are staff members helping them to bypass all the nece ...
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  • Kpenyigba Kwesi 8 years ago

    I agree with you. WU cannot make payments without identification and password. There is deffinately someone in the bank organizing this fraud.Bank needs to investigate this deeply, with Police assistance.

  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 8 years ago

    The guy on the inside does most of the work. It's about inside access and speed. You have to beat the real owner of the cash to the money. So you need the guy on the inside to vouch for you

  • Yakub 8 years ago

    My mother in law was tricked the same way in Abidjan. The cashier told her the transaction did not work meanwhile the money was cashed around the same time at the same place. Western Union declined any responsibility.

  • CORNEY 8 years ago

    Right,the name,the amount and now ID card of the individual,it is impossible to do that without knowing these details unless the officials at some particular banks are part of the gang.
    Few of the banks have now stopped fil ...
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  • bismark 8 years ago

    They people in banks they work with. They just send the control number to them and the money is withdrawn

  • wise man 8 years ago

    IYour very damm right Pkirks 1) he has to provide the details of the one who send the money and amount as well 2) how can the the thieves provide the the document bearing the same name of the original receiver instantly for t ...
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  • bismark 8 years ago

    Is very true if u don't know dnt jus come and comment

  • Max 8 years ago

    This can't be. What ID did they use to get the money from the bank. Its not that simple for one to do that, because you have to present an ID in the recipient name before you cash the money. There is more into this story than ...
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  • gerker 8 years ago

    You are wrong Max, no ID is required if you have the code.

  • gerker 8 years ago

    You are wrong Max, no ID is required if you have the code.

  • gerker 8 years ago

    You are wrong Max, no ID is required if you have the code.

  • IBB 8 years ago

    Maybe, only in Ghana or Africa an ID is not required because the bankers are part of the crime cartel

  • gerker 8 years ago

    You are wrong Max, no ID is required if you have the code.

  • Tonny 8 years ago

    If u read the story to understand well its already talking about someone who works in a different bank,who transact Western Union and a patner,,,,,what else u talk about ID? In the continent now,,,all is possible...."Its pain ...
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  • bismark 8 years ago

    They have people they work with in different bank. So its easy for them to cash the money. The money will be withdrawn by the banker at a different bank. If u dnt know jus ask

  • Jim 8 years ago

    repent of your uncultured and uncalled for acid tongue life and behave as a proper human being who live among human society. you need CHRIST.

  • nite 8 years ago

    At least, cash is better than cats.

  • ELikem4u 8 years ago

    Your a silly human - I'm sure not even the devil wants you in Hell - wonder what you loitering earth doing - ethnic bullshit- scumbag

  • j-blessgh1. 8 years ago

    Instead for us to unite against fraud and corruption we turned the issue to #Tribalism .Now open your eyes and let me tell you this:Ghana is for us all including kids born to immigrants so lets all find a way to move her for ...
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  • Ajokoloko 8 years ago

    Douglas, you are a filthy fool!

  • Hebert, Sweden 8 years ago

    Yes, someone may know the code, but that alone do not meet the criteria for the withdrawal of the cash sent. An identity card is also needed. Why should the cash then be paid to the withdrawal without the right Identity? Inte ...
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  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 8 years ago

    So Ghanaians are NOT saints after all! They always pretends to holier than thou, yet they are WORST than any venoumous snake. If l come across any of these HIPOCRYTICAL Ghanaians like DEMENTED, NINCOMPOOP BASTARD ROMANO and ...
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  • ROMANO 8 years ago

    U HAVE ALREADY DISPLAYED ENOUGH DUMBNESS THAT U CAN'T EVEN COMPREHEND. WE ALL KNOW THAT U AND UR NIGERIAN BROTHERS ARE BEHIND ALL THESE SCAMS GOING ON IN GHANA. EVERY EVIL THING THAT GOES ON GHANA GOES THRU NIGERIANS. NIGERIA ...
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  • ROMANO 8 years ago

    IN GHANA

  • romano . u are a bastard 8 years ago

    ghana are thieves. yet they put all the blame on nigeria. you have been thieves and killers since the days of slavery. you sold all the black race to the english and dutch yet blame it on the white. u always blame ur bad and ...
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  • ROMANO 8 years ago

    U STUPID ASS NEMESIS U ARE A COWARD.

  • Danfodi 8 years ago

    The officials collaborate with the criminals. I recently send money to my son through W/U. But when he went to pick the money, he was told by the official his ID is a fake one. Meanwhile he has been collecting money send to h ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 8 years ago

    Omane Boateng and those of his supposedly friends by whom he texted the control and code numbers to may certainly have something common with the HFC Bank on the Spintex Road in Accra and the appendix banks at which his so-cal ...
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  • Adama 8 years ago

    How does anyone collect money from Western Union or Money gram without proper identification? If these crooks are able to do this, then they have an ally at the bank where they normally collect these stolen money without an I ...
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  • BULLET 8 years ago

    NO NEWS...HE WILL BE BACK ON THE STREET SOON..HOW CAN HE TAKE MONEY WITHOUT AN ID..PROBE THE MONEY TRANSFER OFFICE.

  • Roket 8 years ago

    Still wondering how they could collect money without ID....hmmmmm

  • Botee K. Roland 8 years ago

    The suspect must be througly investigated,and punished accordingly by law.

  • NELSON, USA 8 years ago

    Poor Ghana. The person only writes the control number and the banker who is collaborating cashes the money and take it home if there is no secret answer to transaction. Look for the bank employee. What is the use of CCTV came ...
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  • Congo Soja 8 years ago

    this is no news, it happens all the time.

  • ghanaian 8 years ago

    So the ID CARD & TEST QUESTION from the receiver and the sender are not relevant in Ghana anymore.
    How desperate people are nowadays. Am not an Ashante, but Douglas what about Haruna , is he Ashante? We should leave our t ...
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  • Ebo 8 years ago

    For your information, Haruna(his muslim name) is an Asante Nkramo. His real name is Berko Twumhene. I do not blame him. Robbery and dubious ways are embedded in his tribal DNA. In other words, he was born with the robbery gen ...
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  • Kwaboat 8 years ago

    I was swindled $4000 at the Agricultural Development Bank, Kumasi when my mother went to collect my transferred money. In the first instance they told her the money had not arrived and to come back later. When she went again ...
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  • Delilah 8 years ago

    I actually feel sorry for him. The ordinary Ghanaian is forced to do things they would normally not do! A reflection of the state of our country.

  • OP/LONDON 8 years ago

    One needs an ID to draw cash so he could not get the cash without an inside help.

  • William Odartey 8 years ago

    The same thing happen to me last .yearmy daughter should cash the moneyat Labone on Friday but the banker said there was a problem with the machine .she went the nest day was Saturday around 9.00am at madina Ghana hmmmmmm

  • William Odartey 8 years ago

    He sent court to mention those involved

  • Paapidi 8 years ago

    Any bank that pays out a remittance without properly identifying the recipient is liable. It is as simple as that.

  • bb 8 years ago

    Fyi people,a staff will need the code to be able access the wu platform.

    What these fraudsters do is.. send the codes to their partners who have been albe to hack into the wu sys. they then change the beneficiary details a ...
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  • koffi parker 8 years ago

    the guy obviously has someone inside to delay the original process thereby given the other thieves the time to withdraw from the other end

  • Naa Korkor 8 years ago

    Can't understand this, withdrawing money without ID ? The money was not sent in his name so how can he withdraw....serious...

  • natural 8 years ago

    this is an inside Job.

  • S B ARANSA 8 years ago

    I can understanding this situation why,because u will be giving ur ID name for confirmation withdrawal before getting the money.so you want tell me the have everyone ID name with them or what.there. Is some information l ...
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  • Henry 8 years ago

    The control number should correspond with an ided name

  • joe 8 years ago

    so only mtcn can help u cash western union this days?what about senders n receivers info?i don't believe this koraaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • bismark 8 years ago

    How are you people doing to stop this western union fraud. Cos alot of young men are into dis.it has been going on for so long.