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Angry customer sues Ecobank over missing US$34,500

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  • allen 10 years ago

    I have never come across any bank as unscrupulous as Eco-bank before.As soon as they lure you into opening an account with them,they tend to debit your account with unnecessary transactions that you might not have opted for a ...
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  • SHALOM 10 years ago

    Thank you. A word to the wise is enough. Nyway the petty-petty debits from ECOBANK is becoming too much.The top management should sit up and re-think about the numerous transaction concerns from customers and put better strat ...
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  • Pauline 10 years ago

    Shalom, you're right there. They need to take take these things seriously nd fish bad nuts if it's inside deal. But the man should have quickly followed up and sealed his instruction that he didn't want the service any longer ...
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  • coaches 10 years ago

    fraudulent bank...this ecobank guys transferred over 13,000 cedis from my account to my client without even calling me for confirmation. When i confronted them, i was told sometimes when they call us for confirmation of chequ ...
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  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur thinkin 10 years ago

    HOW DO U WITHRAW MONIES FROM A CLOSED ACCT? WHEN HE REQUESTED TO HAVE THE ACCT CLOSED, WAS THERE ANY CASH IN THE ACCT? IF THERE WAS, WHY DIDNT ECOBANK SEND THE CLIENT HIS/HER MONEY? MINUS ANY ACCT FEES?



    He therefore wr ...
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  • No ACC was asked to be closed Please 10 years ago

    No ACC was asked to be closed, the customer only asked that the online service be deactivated. Please always read well and comment appropriately.The issue is that most banks in Gh are not making any profits as they always pub ...
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  • Bintah 10 years ago

    If you say: "he received correspondence from the Bank furnishing him with details of “his internet bank account” log in asking him to visit any of the branches of the Bank to activate the account so he can transact busine ...
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  • Amamoh 10 years ago

    Thank you! I once asked my bank to close my account while some fund was still in it. You can't close a funded account. So someone cannot have withdrawn money from a closed account. Take your time and read the story. That may ...
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  • SOPHERIC ACID 10 years ago

    Nigerians are excellent at this type of stealing.
    Hire experts to trace how the money was siphoned from the bank. The results will point to Nigerians, I bet you. Wherever these Nigerians are, they are laughing and drinking t ...
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  • BIG NAME 10 years ago

    NEMESIS,UK did it. Please, call this Nigerian called NEMESIS,UK and ask him. He did it. There is nobody who will do this apart from NEMESIS,UK. He is the one .

  • SULPHERIC ACID . 10 years ago

    I am not lying. NEMESIS,UK is a scammer. He does best in this stunts.Is he not a Nigerian? He is. He is the one who did it.

  • Village Food 10 years ago

    SOPHERIC ACID i agree with you

  • Osei 10 years ago

    Your name tell it all. You are from foolish family with foolish thinking. Ghanaians are wise except you and your family members

  • Isaac 10 years ago

    Plaintiff has every right to sue foe recovery since de defendant unlawfully deduct such amount from her account without her consent and probably pay compensation as well

  • Boakoh 10 years ago

    Fake Pocket Lawyer! Analyse the story well. The plaintiff may have let loose his banking and internet details for one of his own unscrupulous nephews to hack him down. How about that?

  • bintu 10 years ago

    ok, what about this. the guy after receiving the internet banking details saw an opportunity to swindle the bank. because he has already written to the bank to cancel the service, he activated the service, used it to transfer ...
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  • sallyj 10 years ago

    it has always been that at Ecobank. i had an experiece. i had two cedi accounts:a current account and savings account. i realised my money in the savings account was transfered into the current account without my knowledge. i ...
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  • Anastasia Afriye-Addoh 10 years ago

    Hi, much as this story sounds unfortunate, let us not handle it the typical Ghanaian way we do things!
    If the matter is truly in court, the information should be public enough. You may not want to publish full details but at ...
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  • SHALOM 10 years ago

    If indeed the bank can, without your consent, transfer funds from one account to another then we4 are in trouble. The Bank of Ghana must charge its supervisory division to investigate to protect depositors funds at ECOBANK. T ...
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  • Yeboaah 10 years ago

    That has to happen to all the banks, not just Ecobank.
    Indeed the BoG has to strengthen things but such cases record a 50-50 chance that the victim's particulars may have been hacked by a close, bad relative, you see?

  • AA 10 years ago

    Ecobank is one of the most useless banks there is in Ghana. In 2009, I used one of their ATMs to withdraw money from my Barclays account. The ATM debited my account but never gave me the money. I reported the matter to Barcla ...
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  • atadwe-ginger 10 years ago

    I have been advised from a very high source at the Ghana Police not to open accounts with any West African Bank, especially Ecobank.

  • Allen 10 years ago

    I recently opened an account at Ecobank on Ridge and requested Internet Banking services. The fools sent me my full account number, username and password in 3 emails. It is no wonder the man lost money. When I inquired wh ...
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  • ODISIKA. 10 years ago

    THERE IS AN UNDERGROUND SCAM BY SOME BANKING OFFICIALS AGAINST CUSTOMERS WITH HUGE DEPOSIT BALANCE ACCT.THE SCAMMERS SKIM OFF SOME MONEYS .INVEST AND MAKE PROFITS AND REDEPOSIT.GHANAIANS BEWARE!!!!

  • DAROS UK 10 years ago

    iN REALITY WHEN YOU REQUEST INTERNET BANKING YOU MUST BE VERY CARE FULL WITH DETAILS ONES YOU LET CLOSE FRIENDS,RELATIVES OR EVEN YOUR WIFE KNOWS YOUR DETAIL IT MEANS YOU MAY LOSE YOUR MONEY.
    HOW CAN YOU CLOSE ONLINE BANKI ...
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  • CREDIT 10 years ago

    Whilst some are working to safeguard their future, others plot to steal with impunity. Ecobank should credit his account with the amount immediately. Thieves.

  • Ali 10 years ago

    I feel sorry for this person.... same happened to me early 2010. I gave them all the chances to rectify their system faults and investigate what had happen to credit back my account but......
    We ended up in court and in Nov ...
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  • papi 10 years ago

    AWWW ECOBANK JUST LOST ONE CLIENT

  • Abyssinia 10 years ago

    It's not always the case! A friend who kept hanging on to his bank in spite some bitter experiences decided to stay with them because every time the bank fixed the problem professionally. After all where you're thinking of go ...
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  • Big Joe - Moscow/ Kharkov City. Ukrai 10 years ago

    The Customer was duped by Ecobank Staff Accra / Ghana . Am certainly sure and can confirm this as I experienced this trauma in Lome/Togo Branch of Ecobank in 2005/2006 . It was a bitter pill i SWALLOWED without relief . ...
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  • Fusena 10 years ago

    Ooooh No! We're getting scared of you now, it looks like you know more than you should about how financial frauds are schemed. Your description of cross-border cyber crime is what may be costing banks huge sums of money on IT ...
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  • Big Joe ... Moscow / Kharkov 10 years ago

    don;t be scared Fuseini . We are living in a hi-tech world and the woes of affliction in the banking world in West Africa, UK and Asia is more and more BANK EMPLOYEES ( junior, middle and top ) are criminals before . ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    THIS IS CLEAR TO ME THAT THE AFRICAN BANKS ARE NOT SECURE ENOUGH, TO DO ANY INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS WITH THEM.
    THAT GENTLEMANS ACCOUNT IS BEING HACKED..

  • Abrah 10 years ago

    Exactly!Hacked by the account owner's close relatives, wasn't it? But where I don't agree with you is "if African banks are not secure enough", how many foreign banks other than African ones do you have in your country? Do th ...
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  • ETU 10 years ago

    the banks operate with human-beings and there may be thieves among them. it's the banks responsibility. no wonder they always come up with unreasonable desclaimer/with a long list of terms and conditions usually to protect th ...
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  • Obimpeh 10 years ago

    Just admit that you don't have time to read the disclaimers, some of which tell are sources of information to service subscribers on what first lines of action to take when something goes wrong; so that the service provider c ...
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