The Director of Marketing and Public Relations of Tema Port, Mr. Paul Asare Ansah has indicated that management of the port does not have any mobile money account where clients and business partners must pay through when doing business.
According to him, the port authority has banks within the premises where transactions as pertains payments of cash are channeled through.
Mr. Ansah was speaking to www.spyghana.com on the ongoing fraudulent activities on some online advertisement platforms, where people take advantage of the internet marketing boom to defraud unsuspecting clients.
There have been cases of people using olx.com, tonaton.com among others, to defraud clients using the name of the port.
He said, the GPHA did not transact business on any private online platform, and people must rather be vigilant of such transactions.
Mr. Ansah said the ports authority received complaints from clients to that effect and that investigations are underway.
He said information gathered showed that these individuals pasted pictures of very good vehicle brands of products like Toyota, VW on olx.com and tonaton.com and price them very cheap to attract buyers but later defraud them.
Mr Ansah said GPHA had officially received complaints from a lady, a gentleman and a journalist who had been defrauded to the tune of 6,500 Ghana cedis from this online trade by making payment through MTN Mobile money transfer to these individuals.
Mr. Ansah explained that the fraudsters who have a means of tracking when payments are made to them, quickly break communication with the clients after withdrawal.
He advised the general public to be on guard for such people and calling on them to demand to make physical payment when they come to contact with such businesses.
“Consider anyone who tries to hide his identity from you in any of such businesses as a fraudster. Avoid dealing with the,” he said.
Mr. Ansah also averred that, the Port Authority will be making contacts with the operators of these platforms, olx.com and tonaton.com as well as others, to ensure that advertisement of such activities where the name of GPHA will be mentioned are not given attention.
Although he stressed that the PHA does not sell vehicles, it sometimes does auction for confiscated vehicles but that too, he explained, is being supervised or done by the Customs officials.
Mr. Ansah however called on the general public to make contacts with the GPHA for enquiries on the following lines:
020-201-2414, ?057-351-8176 or email their queries through [email protected]
