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Front page news: Ghana Daily Graphic
Another ATM Scandal:
Apparently 3 students from the local university managed to work out that by opening an account with a certain local bank which offers the ability to recharge your cell from an ATM machine, they had the key to riches!
GHC 700 million worth of riches – that equates to $80,000.
It appears there was a fatal flaw in the ATM program. In order to make use of this service you did not have to have any money in your account. QUE? WTF Did I not know about that!!!
The best part however was it took the bank THREE MONTHS to work out that the clearing account they run for this service was …. Erm not clearing. It got better when they realised the address the students gave them did not exist. They do however have the lads pictures from their student registration – which could be a blow for them.
You would think that Banks would have closed this loophole by now considering ATM’s have been around for a while. I also have a sneaky suspicion one bank employee responsible for the loophole is looking for a job.
Sex with a dead person?
A lad in the Eastern Cape – yup South Africa made the Ghana News – was arrested for violating a corpse. Apparently the lad did not have access to a fresh one from the local morgue, but had to revert to digging one up!! I trust it was reasonably fresh *shudder*
His excuse must be “But your Honour, I thought she was British”
INTEREST RATES in Ghana have reduced by 1.5% to a whopping 19.5%. Growth? What’s that?
MAN STABS WIFE – Gets six years hard labour. I think he will be sorry when he gets out – The missus survived.
MTN ARRIVES IN GHANA. With the recent spate of acquisitions MTN have done in Africa, they inherited Spacefon – or Areeba as they are now known – Methinks we are going to have loads of Yellow on the billboards in Ghana. Me also thinks the days of phoning South Africa for GHC 2200 per minute (USD0.23c) will be a thing of the past soon. Maybe – just maybe – the service will improve.
GHANA HAS AN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION. They do? Fark!!
(The story related to how they demolished unauthorized structures on their land) The apparently have some 2000 acres of which 300 had been occupied by squatters. Site of a new power station to alleviate the daily blackouts?
COKE FOR ALL. Apparently four of the local police assisted in the nicking of 2,280 kg of cocaine from the local cop shop in Accra. I am hoping it was 2 POINT 280 kg and not 2 tons of the stuff. The accused that had the coke originally goes by the alias of “the Limping Man”
My News?
Nothing really – Work Work Work – Minimal Play – although I did get a game of golf in on Sunday and played ok.
Same old!!
Front page news: Ghana Daily Graphic
Another ATM Scandal:
Apparently 3 students from the local university managed to work out that by opening an account with a certain local bank which offers the ability to recharge your cell from an ATM machine, they had the key to riches!
GHC 700 million worth of riches – that equates to $80,000.
It appears there was a fatal flaw in the ATM program. In order to make use of this service you did not have to have any money in your account. QUE? WTF Did I not know about that!!!
The best part however was it took the bank THREE MONTHS to work out that the clearing account they run for this service was …. Erm not clearing. It got better when they realised the address the students gave them did not exist. They do however have the lads pictures from their student registration – which could be a blow for them.
You would think that Banks would have closed this loophole by now considering ATM’s have been around for a while. I also have a sneaky suspicion one bank employee responsible for the loophole is looking for a job.
Sex with a dead person?
A lad in the Eastern Cape – yup South Africa made the Ghana News – was arrested for violating a corpse. Apparently the lad did not have access to a fresh one from the local morgue, but had to revert to digging one up!! I trust it was reasonably fresh *shudder*
His excuse must be “But your Honour, I thought she was British”
INTEREST RATES in Ghana have reduced by 1.5% to a whopping 19.5%. Growth? What’s that?
MAN STABS WIFE – Gets six years hard labour. I think he will be sorry when he gets out – The missus survived.
MTN ARRIVES IN GHANA. With the recent spate of acquisitions MTN have done in Africa, they inherited Spacefon – or Areeba as they are now known – Methinks we are going to have loads of Yellow on the billboards in Ghana. Me also thinks the days of phoning South Africa for GHC 2200 per minute (USD0.23c) will be a thing of the past soon. Maybe – just maybe – the service will improve.
GHANA HAS AN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION. They do? Fark!!
(The story related to how they demolished unauthorized structures on their land) The apparently have some 2000 acres of which 300 had been occupied by squatters. Site of a new power station to alleviate the daily blackouts?
COKE FOR ALL. Apparently four of the local police assisted in the nicking of 2,280 kg of cocaine from the local cop shop in Accra. I am hoping it was 2 POINT 280 kg and not 2 tons of the stuff. The accused that had the coke originally goes by the alias of “the Limping Man”
My News?
Nothing really – Work Work Work – Minimal Play – although I did get a game of golf in on Sunday and played ok.
Same old!!
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