Award-winning celebrated Ghanaian movie maker, Majid Michel has revealed how a scammer using his name was arrested.
In an interview with Daybreak Hits on Hitz Fm, Majid Michel disclosed how a Nigerian scammer using his name to scam people was apprehended after he met a woman who claimed he asked her for financial support in the burial of his mother who was dead at the time “I arrested a guy in 2014 when my mum passed. There was a program we were at and she walked up to me and said, I am talking to you right now and I’m like am not on Facebook. She shows me conversations of she and I and in the conversation, I am asking her for money to bury my mother and she is about to send $5000”
The actor also revealed the name of a friend who helped him in apprehending the scammer “So I tell her, don’t stop talking to that guy, keep talking to the guy So I tell her ‘Mawuli Gambino’ I deal with him, give him the information and direct the girl on what to do that we are sending the money but somebody is leaving Accra so meet him quickly for the money. So my friend Mawuli here got the police and they went to Osu. The guy sent somebody to come, they got there and they caught the guy. I was in America all this while”
Majid Michel concluded by adding “They apprehend the man and he refuses to talk, so they slap him one, two and now he leads them all the way to the Nigerian man and they are scamming people in my name”
This is not the first time scammers have used the name of celebrities in extorting money from the unsuspecting victim. Kindly share your thoughts and opinions via our comment session.
