A sick Ghanaian lady identified simply as Yvonne has confessed to how she and her crime partner employ “African Juju” to commit various criminal activities including credit card fraud, car theft, and trafficking stolen goods to Ghana from their base in Germany.
Yvonne, 39, who is bedridden after undergoing a double mastectomy which saw her two breasts cut off after being diagnosed with stage three cancer, confessed in an interview with Kofi TV. She said she decided to use the challenging time to confess her past wrongdoings.
Speaking in the interview, disclosed that she and her partner used black magic, or “juju,” to hypnotise and control their victims after defrauding them.
“I was financially stable and earning my own money. Then I met this guy, who was a very bad person. He taught me a lot of bad things,” she said.
The remorseful Yvonne also described how she got deeply involved in fraudulent activities, tricking banks and stealing from unsuspecting victims.
“I engaged in credit card fraud, bank fraud, car theft, and so on. My partner gets the lists from the banks, checks what the victims have in their accounts, and transfers them into ours.
“I was the one placing the call to these international banks, asking for the amount they had in their accounts. They freely gave me the information because I came fully prepared, with the details of their accounts, as though I were them,” she revealed.
Yvonne also admitted that she was part of a crime syndicate that specializes in stealing cars from rental services in the European country and shipped them to Ghana.
“We stole from car rental services too. I would contact these rental services, rent a car, and then hand it over to my partner to ship to Ghana.
“My partner was into black charms (juju) as well, so after duping the victims, he would use charms on them.”
She further noted that their targets included both black and foreign individuals, particularly wealthy people, adding that her partner had connections in high places, including Buckingham Palace.
Also delving into the reasons for her open confession, Yvonne said with her current situation, she believes that her illness is a punishment for her past actions.
“I am currently suffering because of all the bad things I’ve done to people. All the things I did to people came with stress. I don’t understand what happened because I was a healthy eater. I don’t drink or smoke. I think it’s spiritual,” she said.
Asked about her partner’s whereabouts, Yvonne said he abandoned her when she became ill.
“When I fell ill, he abandoned me. Now he looks like a ghost,” she lamented.
“I want to warn the youth. If you love money so much that you let it control you, you will end up like me. You will lose a lot of good people. I don’t want anyone to follow my path.
“Don’t chase money; be with someone who genuinely loves and cares for you. Not someone who will ruin your life,” she emphasised.
Satellite television services provider, MultiChoice, says it is now targeting illegal streamers in its renewed crackdown against piracy.
Frikkie Jonker, the Anti-Piracy Director for Broadcast and Cybersecurity at MultiChoice-owned Irdeto, in a statement on Tuesday, says the company now uses tools to analyse illegal streams and identify the individuals responsible for streaming pirated DStv content.
Jonker stated that authorities knew who the end-users of these pirate streaming services were and warned that MultiChoice would consider legal action against them once criminal proceedings against such operators had been finalised.
“We are going after the whole ecosystem,” Jonker said in response to a question asking who MultiChoice is targeting.
“The company has carried out several raids in recent months, resulting in the arrest of several suspects allegedly involved in pirate streaming operations.
“Suspects include individuals allegedly distributing pirate streaming devices and login credentials for illegal streaming services like Waka TV.
“We have identification tools that we can use to analyse a stream of a pirate operation. By analysing it, we can say that the stream is using account number ‘123’, and then we take that account down,” Jonker said.
Jonker emphasised the importance of the crackdown, stating that the impact of pirate streaming services on platforms such as DStv Stream and Netflix is difficult to quantify due to their size.
Online audio streaming platform, Spotify, has announced an immediate increment in price for its premium subscribers in Nigeria by over 40%.
In a statement announcing the price increase, the platform said the hike in the fee would allow the team to continue innovating on its product offerings and features, providing users with the best experience.
In the notification, Spotify informed that starting from their billing date in November, their subscription price would change from ₦900/month to ₦1,300/month.
The latest price update puts the Premium subscription plan at ₦7,000 ($4.40) monthly, up from the initial ₦5,000 ($3.14), indicating a 40% rise.
The platform had in April, hiked its Premium Plan price from ₦4,400 ($2.76) to ₦5,000 ($3.14).
However, it added that users who do not wish to continue paying for Premium at the new price can cancel via their account page.
Spotify has also introduced Offline Backup to its Premium users globally, allowing them to listen to music offline without needing to download, with the
Offline Backup appearing in the Home feed when users are offline, and can listen to more than five songs once they have offline listening activated.