Ghanaian man charged with credit card fraud

Perhaps an African man who got in trouble for getting a cash advance for five thousand dollars using a fake credit card should have stowed some of that money away because today he was unable to meet his three thousand dollar bail and was remanded to Hattieville. Forty year old Alcine Eudithia from Ghana, who appeared in Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, pleaded guilty to two counts of obtaining property by deception. It is alleged that on Monday, Eudithia visited the Barclays Bank branch near the Belcan Bridge and used a visa gold card and a Canadian passport to receive a cash advance of two thousand, five hundred U.S. dollars. He might have gotten away with the transaction if he had been satisfied with that amount, but instead he went back to the same bank the very next day to try and get an additional three thousand U.S. dollars. The bank clerk got suspicious and called the Navy Federal Credit Union in the United States and was told that the name on the card was different from that in their files. C.I.B. was called in and Eudithia was promptly arrested. Western Union transaction receipts for several thousand dollars were found in his hotel room.