[ 2012-06-09 ]

Polling Agent Busted For Fraud
A 24 YEAR old polling agent of the Convention
People's Party (CPP), Robert Sam was arrested
Tuesday by the Abura Dunkwa District Police for
defrauding one Joseph Amuzu, a mechanic at
Dunkwa-On-Offin.

Sam, a computer hardware engineering student at
IBB Centre for Computer Studies in Cape Coast has
been using a 'magic voice device' to change his
voice from a man to a woman's in order to rob
innocent people.

Briefing journalists at Abura Dunkwa on Wednesday,
the town's Police Commander, DSP Bernard Twum
Barima said the suspect was arrested after John
Frimpong, the victim's father reported at the
police station that his son has been duped of
GH¢820 by Sam.

He said Amuzu had a call from Sam who pretended to
be calling from abroad that he was interested in
buying a car Amuzu wanted to sell for GH¢4000.

He said Sam then told Amuzu that his mother was
the one who wanted to buy the car for him and that
he should expect a call from her soon.

Minutes later one Mary Mensah called pretending to
be Sam's mother called from Britain saying she
wanted to buy the car for her son but wanted to
deal with him directly as she does not trust her
son.

She later asked Amuzu to deposit GH¢820 into her
Akosombo account at Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB)
for Sam to use for an emergency transaction and
that she would send some items such as laptop and
jeans which he can use to defray the amount she
had collected from him.

DSP Twum Barima noted that Amuzu along with his
father went to the Dunkwa-On-Offin GCB branch
and deposit the GH¢820 .

Mary called Amuzu some few minutes later,
requesting that he and his father deposit an
additional GH¢1,500 to enable her send them the
items since the port authorities in Britain were
complaining the items had delayed but Amuzu's
father who became suspicious refused to do so,
demanding that she transfer the money they had
already deposited into her account back to him.

The police officer said some hours later Amuzu's
father decided to call Mary and Sam to ascertain
how far they had gone with the transaction but
Sam's phone was off while Mary's phone went
unanswered.

Later when the duo went to the bank to withdraw
the money they were told that one Sam had cashed
the money with an ID card bearing the name Robert
Sam at Assin Fosu.

Armed with photocopies of the ID card and with the
help of the Assin South Electoral Commission they
were able to trace the whereabouts of Sam.

DSP Twum Barima said Sam was subsequently arrested
while in school and brought to the Abura Dunkwa
police station where he was detained and upon
interrogation admitted the offence.

Source - Daily Guide

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