{"id":21614,"date":"2026-01-13T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21614\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:59:10","slug":"fishmonger-threatens-curses-after-alleged-dollar-scam-worth-gh%c2%a21600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21614\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishmonger threatens curses after alleged dollar scam worth GH\u00a21,600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/Fishmonger-threatens-curses-after-alleged-dollar-scam-worth-GH-1-600-2017104?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/53281579.295.jpg\" alt=\"The fishmonger displaying the counterfeit notes\" title=\"The fishmonger displaying the counterfeit notes\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/> <\/a>The fishmonger displaying the counterfeit notes<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">A fishmonger has threatened to invoke curses on two Ghanaian men and a White man after they allegedly used counterfeit US dollar notes to purchase fish worth GH\u00a21,600.<\/p>\n<p>In a viral video dated January 12, 2026, the fishmonger said the three men visited her stall and bought all the fish on her table, valued at GH\u00a21,600. <\/p>\n<p>She explained that although she requested payment in Ghana cedis, the men insisted she accept the foreign currency they offered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/GIS-arrests-11-foreign-nationals-over-counterfeit-money-printing-cyber-fraud-2016474\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GIS arrests 11 foreign nationals over counterfeit money printing, cyber fraud<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to her, the group made up of two Ghanaians and a foreigner paid with US dollar notes, which she later accepted.<\/p>\n<p>She indicated that she travelled to Tema Community one to exchange the dollars into cedis, only to be told by forex dealers that the notes were counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p>The fishmonger expressed anger and distress over the incident and warned that she would invoke traditional curses if the perpetrators failed to return her money.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below:<\/p>\n<p>MRA\/AE<\/p>\n<p>Which party leaves government with its finance minister missing \u2013 Ex Subin MP loses cool on Ofori-Atta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fishmonger displaying the counterfeit notes A fishmonger has threatened to invoke curses on two Ghanaian men and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[79],"class_list":{"0":"post-21614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-ghana"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}