By Dilip Mistry

A clampdown on SIM Box fraud in Ghana has led to an anti fraud collaboration between the National Communications Authority (NCA), all telecom service providers in the country and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.

The operations have already led to the arrest of a six-member SIM Box syndicate operating between Oregon in the United States and Accra, Ghana. Members of the syndicate had, according to investigators, carried out the illegal termination of telephone calls, also known as SIM box operations, in the last seven months during which, it deprived telecom operators and the state revenue in the region of US $ 4.5m.