{"id":135114,"date":"2015-07-16T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=135114"},"modified":"2015-07-16T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T13:49:43","slug":"16-year-old-2-others-arrested-in-sim-box-fraud-swoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=135114","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old, 2 others arrested in SIM box fraud swoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 16-year-old Nicholas Ntsu was one of three persons arrested in Tema after the Police and other agencies embarked on SIM box fraud swoop in Tema.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two others are Selasi Dorfenyo 24,and Eric Agbanya, 30 both\u00a0businessmen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135123\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-5.jpg\" alt=\"simbox fraud in tema (5)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three are partners with a yet to be identified Lebanese national.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three were arrested on July 7 in a joint operation which included the Police, the Telecommunication operators and Subah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This brings to 24 the number of arrests made in the last 7 months involved in SIM box fraud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135122\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-1.jpg\" alt=\"simbox fraud in tema (1)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SIM box equipment, generators, computer accessories, SIM cards, and communication antennas were retrieved by the Police CID.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135124\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-6.jpg\" alt=\"simbox fraud in tema (6)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-6.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/simbox-fraud-in-tema-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exercise is part of the special SIM fraud triangulation project by the stakeholders and the Police CID to digitally locate and confiscate SIM boxes used in the illegal business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A SIM box fraud is a setup in which fraudsters install SIM boxes with multiple low-cost prepaid SIM cards and\u00a0terminate international calls through local phone numbers to make it appear as if the call is a local one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old Nicholas Ntsu was one of three persons arrested in Tema after the Police and other agencies embarked on SIM box fraud swoop in Tema. The two others are Selasi Dorfenyo 24,and Eric Agbanya, 30 both\u00a0businessmen. The three are partners with a yet to be identified Lebanese national. The three were arrested on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":135125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-135114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}