Nigerian Doing Business With Fake Credit Cards Nabbed

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested a Nigerian who allegedly used a fake credit card to purchase computers from a company in the United States at a time Ghana had been blacklisted by the United States not to use credit cards to order goods on the Internet.

Preston Dele Ale was alleged to have ordered the computers and their accessories in the name of Family Health Plan International, Ghana from Global Microsystems in the US.

According to the deputy director of the CID, assistant commissioner of police, Mr Patrick Ampewuah, on February 7 this year, one Ray Joelson of Global Microsystems reported through the American embassy in Accra that the company had shipped some computers to Ghana, but the credit card used for the payment of the computers had turned out to be fake and they needed assistance of the police to apprehend the suspects.

Upon investigations, Ms Felicia Yartey, a clearing agent for Ale, and one Rasak Animasham have been arrested, and a number of computers and their accessories retrieved.

According to Preston Dele Ale, he was lured into the business by a Nigerian friend called Jack Maskean, yet to be apprehended.