SIM Box fraud war must not degenerate into media propaganda

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• kojo 11 years ago

  NCA must protect the customer some of these service providers are involved in the sim box fraud

  NCA must protect the customer some of these service providers are involved in the sim box fraud

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• kojo 11 years ago

  The National Communications Authority (NCA) has made it clear that if it discovers any illegally acquired SIM cards being used for SIM Box fraud, the respective telecom operators would be held responsible and made to pay for ...
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  The National Communications Authority (NCA) has made it clear that if it discovers any illegally acquired SIM cards being used for SIM Box fraud, the respective telecom operators would be held responsible and made to pay for it.
  
  On March 3, 2012 telecom operators deactivated more than 1.5 million unregistered and invalidly registered inactive SIM cards as a measure to, among other things, stem SIM-based unlawful activities, including SIM box fraud.
  
  Director of Regulatory Administration at the NCA, Joshua Peprah said that SIM registration was one of the main measures to track SIM Box fraudsters and so after the deactivation of unregistered SIMs, the operators are expected to keep records of only legally registered SIMs with the identities of the owners.
  
  “If we discover that any SIM card has been used in a SIM box, we will go to the concerned operator to give us the identity of the owner of that number – if we discover that the SIM was illegally acquired then that operator would have to pay government its portion of the expected revenue from the international call terminated through that SIM,” he said.

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• Nimo 11 years ago

  Not many people understand what SIM Box fraud is but practically every mobile phone user in Ghana, who has ever received a call from abroad must have suffered from it in one way or the other. Simply put, the way it plays out ...
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  Not many people understand what SIM Box fraud is but practically every mobile phone user in Ghana, who has ever received a call from abroad must have suffered from it in one way or the other. Simply put, the way it plays out on the public is when one receives a call from overseas and sees a local phone number on the screen, making it look like the call is a local call.
  
  But behind that simple appearance of a local number on the handset from an overseas call is a complex fraud system called SIM Boxing or call bypass. It basically comprises of people and machines overseas [from where the call is coming], working with people and machines here in Ghana who channel the calls through unapproved routes abroad and terminate them through SIM boxes fitted with local SIM cards here in Ghana.
  
  By so doing the fraudsters get to keep the international call rate charged, but the telcos whose SIM cards are used to terminate the call in Ghana, only get paid the local call rate because the call was channelled through a local SIM card. This is where lots of people get confused and often ask “how do the fraudsters get paid?”

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• ernest 11 years ago

  Mr. Nimo well done for your clarification, you've made it more simple. But the bigger question remains, how do these fraudsters get paid???

  Mr. Nimo well done for your clarification, you've made it more simple. But the bigger question remains, how do these fraudsters get paid???

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