The Minister of Communication and Digitalisation, Samuel Nartey George, has said that the new SIM reregistration that will soon be undertaken will make the activities of mobile money (MoMo) fraudsters very expensive to do.
He says that MoMo fraudsters will not be able to access any government services when they are caught.
“To a very large extent, it will make MoMo fraud very expensive,” he said during a press conference in Accra on Tuesday, March 17.
“When his Ghana Card is blocked, he loses access to every government service. So the cost to MoMo fraud is being raised to the level that it will be prohibitive,” he added.
Regarding the registration exercise itself, Sam George said that there is data in the current system that may have been fraudulently acquired.
“Migrating it into a new system without proper cleansing doesn’t solve the problem; it simply transfers the flaws,” he said.
The Ningo Prampram lawmaker also stated, “We’re driving eSIM adoption. For those already registered, it becomes a simple verification using liveliness tests against NIA data.”
