Gov’t acts to curb mobile money fraud with SIM card registration | By Nana Yaa Djan-Parry | Mobile phone users are to re-register their phone numbers as part of efforts to build a comprehensive, verifiable, biometric-linked data that will help fight growing mobile money fraud in Ghana.
The new registration, which begins on July 1, 2025, is to remedy the lapses in previous nationwide SIM card registration undertaken under the previous government.
These lapses, Mr Samuel Nartey George, the Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations, said is responsible for persistent mobile money and other online fraud.
“This enables fraudulent individuals to register multiple cards to commit fraud without being able to trace their identities,” Mr. George said at press conference in Accra.
In 2023, 14,655 electronic money fraud incidents were recorded, according to Bank of Ghana data. This represented a 20 percent rise in the 12,166 cases recorded in 2022.
Mr. George indicated that the process would be human-centred and technology-driven. “We will commence public sensitisation and education towards the impending registration and Central Equipment Identity Register. This registration is critical for our collective security as a nation.”
Gov’t acts to curb mobile money fraud with SIM card registration | AviationGhana
