7 SIM BOX fraudster arrested.

Suspects hiding thier face from press.

The Anti-Telecom Fraud Task Force has arrested seven more persons for allegedly diverting international calls through SIM box machines mounted in their rooms.

Suspects with sim box devices. 

Different network sim cards recovered. 

genator set use by the fraudsters in case of dumsor.

Four Ghanains, Samuel Adu Amoako, Emmanuel Mensah Boamah, Clement Nartey, Christopher Nartey and two Syrians
Abdul Karem Al-Sabai, 35, and Mohanad
Hamoud Agnah, 33,  with a Pakistani,
Mohammed Nassar Aziz, 35, were the culprits arrested for the sim box fraud.

Ghanaian brothers confessed that they had been engaged in the illegal business
for the past three months and that the equipment was brought to them by their employers identified only as Tony, based in
China.

The Nartey brothers have since been granted bail.

The task force is made up of officials of the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, representatives of all the telecommunications service providers and Subah Infosolutions.

A total of 2,395 SIM cards of mostly Airtel, Vodafone, Tigo and MTN networks were retrieved. Other items found by the police
included pot SIM box machines, laptops, generating sets, mobile phones, Internet routers, a Motorola router and internal antennae.

Series of sim box fraudster busted.....

 The Pakistani, Aziz, and his Ghanaian
counterpart, Amoako, who claimed to be a member of the Ghana-Italy Chamber of Commerce, were arrested at Tema
Community 18 on April 2, 2015 with a high capacity SIM box.

Their six months operation caused a revenue loss of $4,727,808.

 The police established that Al- Sabai, a marketer, and Agnah, a computer engineer, entered Ghana with tourist visas but ended up in the illegal business without resident permits.

Their six-month illegal operation, he said, cost Ghana $787,968 in terms of revenue.

He said the suspects were arrested on March 19, 2015 in a rented apartment at Abelemkpe in Accra.

On March 21, 2015, Mr Agblor said, the task force apprehended two brothers near the Tema Fishing Harbour who had been
allegedly engaging in the SIM box fraud for the past six months.

Their operations caused the country a revenue loss of $393,984, while the operations of Boamah at Kweiman, near
Oyarifa, is said to have led to a loss of $16,005,600.

Boamah, who is suspected to have been operating for six years but has been eluding the task force was finally arrested on March 31, 2015.

the task force used a SIM Box detecting device to track the operations of the suspects who were found to have
mainly received international voice traffic from China which were routed to Ghana through the SIM box system.

SIM BOX tracing device

The task force used a SIM Box detecting device to track the operations of the suspects who were found to have
mainly received international voice traffic from China which were routed to Ghana through the SIM box system.

With the sophisticated systems, the suspects
were enabled the calls to bypass the national gateway, hence depriving the government of revenue from such calls.

the suspects with the help of their gadgets succeeded in making the calls appear
as local calls on the recipients’ phone.

The actions of the suspects also interfered with sending, transmitting, delivery and reception of communication in Ghana.