LOTTERY NUMBER FRAUD

There are some individuals who go around claiming they work at National Lottery Authority and promises to give you 100% genuine-to-win lottery numbers. Some promises to give two-sure numbers whiles others promise to give five-direct numbers.In exchange for this, they will first of all ask you to make a registration fee payment ranging from Ghc100 to Ghc500.00. After making the payment for the registration they don’t get satisfied.

They will find out other means to squeeze every penny you have on you with their tricks. They will give you an excuse like one of their colleagues have leaked the number to an unregistered person so the authorities are angry and have asked all newly or old registered members to make a compensation fee like Ghc75.00 which you that have just joined is part of. After making the payment for the compensation, they will promise to send you the numbers very soon.

They will later tell you that the authorities have delayed the numbers due to what happened so they will try and send the number to you if it comes early but if it doesn’t, they will stake it over there at the office because they close late around 7:45pm or anything close to that.They will delay and later tell you that it’s late so they will stake it over there at the office for you and send you a picture of the ticket after staking it so that they will send the money to your mobile money account the following morning exactly by 8:00am. So they will ask you how much you want to stake so that you will send the money to stake it for you.

If you mention an amount that is too small to them, they will tell you at the office they have a minimum amount you can stake like Ghc50.00. If you decide to wait for the next day so that when the number comes early you can stake it yourself, they will give you same excuses.If you later agree to send them the money to stake it at the office for you, you wouldn’t see the said picture of the ticket nor hear from them.

They will call you the next day and tell you that you have won (a huge amount like Ghc10,000.00) and that they can’t send the whole amount to you because mobile money has a limited amount transactions you can make. With MTN the limited amount is Ghc2,000.00 (whether sending or receiving ot both) but for Airtel Tigo I heard around Ghc1,500.00 and no one can enlarge the account or do anything about this but these fraudsters will tell you that the accountant that will send the money can enlarge the account for you so that you can receive the whole amount you have won and it will cost Ghc250.00 or Ghc150.00 but before that, they will ask you have at least a balance of Ghc150.00 in your account before you can receive the payment.So after they tell you about the amount the accountant will charge, they will also tell you that before the money can be sent to you your account must be empty because the amount you have won is the only amount that can fit into your account so you should forward the balance in your account to them (as a payment or part-payment for the account enlargement).

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  This is a Fake Mobile Money Transaction. If you can see very well you will see that they’ve written clear at the top-right of the phone and at the top 644/2 which appears when typing on a “Yam” phone.

They will also tell you that the account enlargement is just temporary so if you don’t hurry up and send the balance in your account it will be a waste. This is just to put a pressure on you to send the money to them.If you fall for this trick too then you can imagine how much they would have exhorted from you. They will also give you proofs that aren’t real just to convince you such as typing a mobile money payment message themselves which contains a huge amount of money received such as the picture below.

They will continue finding excuses and tricks to extort money from you but you will never receive the said money that you have won. These kind of people don’t deserve to be left free roaming or employed in any company else they’re going to put the company in a huge mess or trouble.

Below is the details of one of the persons doing this unlawful act. If you have also been a victim of this kind of fraud or any other fraud, share the contact and other details (like pictures, names, profile names, numbers, etc) of the person that fraud you and how it happened to help save your brother or sister somewhere. Share to also create awareness and help fish out these wicked people.

Name: Desmond Koomson (same as Mobile Money name)

Numbers: 0571952808 (Whatsapp Number) / 0247241503 (Same as Momo Number) & 0247705485 (Stephen Buabeng- another Momo number / name)