Ghanaian Man Gets Scammed GH¢18,100 After Paying 2 Fraudulent People For An Apartment That Was Not For Rent

Ghanaian Man Gets Scammed GH¢18,100 After Paying 2 Fraudulent People For An Apartment That Was Not For Rent

  • A Ghanaian man has petitioned Ghana's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to help him retrieve an enormous amount of money he paid to two evil people
  • He explained that the two dubious men posed as a real estate agent and a landlord and took him to see a two-bedroom apartment they claimed was for rent
  • After paying the money they requested for the apartment, the man stated that all efforts to reach them had proven futile

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A Ghanaian man, Bright Ewusi, has called on the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to help him retrieve an amount of GH¢18,100 that he paid to two men who posed as an agent and a landlord of an apartment he wanted to rent.

Photos of a crying man and an apartment complex
Ghanaian man cries out for help after being duped of GH¢18,100. Photo credit: Klaus Vedfelt and Michael Tagoe
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Bright recounted how he saw a two-bedroom apartment online and contacted the supposed agent of the property, who took him to see the alleged landlord.

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The two men met Bright and his wife at Kaneshie and led them to see the apartment in Tantra Hill, after which he paid GH¢16,600 and added GH¢1,500 to get airconditioning units installed in the apartment.

See Bright's petition to the CID below.

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Bright Ewusi gets duped for his money

According to Bright, the supposed landlord, Enoch Amankwah, called to meet him at North Kaneshie, where they first met so he could sign the rent agreement form, only to arrive there and be told it was a movie house instead of the landlord's office.

Bright proceeded to visit the apartment he had paid for and met the caretaker, who told him that the apartment was not for rent. All efforts to reach the landlord and agent he paid the apartment's rent to have been in vain.

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African-American woman shares how her Ghanaian landlady duped her of $5000 when searching for a place to rent

In an earlier story, YEN.com.gh wrote about how an African-American lady shared how her Ghanaian landlady duped her of $5000. She stated that when the landlord heard her American accent, she increased the price of the home. Several internet users sympathised with the woman in the post's comment section.

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Richmond Setrana Richmond Setrana is a real estate editor for YEN.com.gh with 5 years of writing experience. He graduated from KNUST in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and is currently enrolled in a MA—Mass Communications program with Liverpool John Moores University. He has written for reputable platforms like meqasa.com, Noanyi, Edanra and Yourcommonwealth.org. He can be reached via: richmond.setrana@yen.com.gh