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Mobile money robberies: Inside Ghana’s rising cybercrime wave - The Fourth Estate

By Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith and Prinsella Vera Aidoo For Diana, a small-scale entrepreneur producing shea butter products in Bolgatanga, in the Upper East Regional capital, it was supposed to be a day of triumph. She had closed her shop with GH¢2,000 in earnings – enough to replenish her raw materials for the week. Confident in her mobile money wallet, she left the funds there for safekeeping. Thirty-seven minutes later, her account was empty. Th…
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The Fourth Estate broke the news in on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
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