MTN Ghana: Stop the cyber fraudsters stealing zillions from your customers through enforced-subscriptions

At 09:08am GMT, today, 27th January, 2023, I received a text message from MTN Ghana, wishing me a: "Happy Data Privacy Week!!".

It felt like a dreadful sick-joke  -  adding to the woes of the daily struggle to survive in a period in which stagflation has caused an unprecedented cost-of-living-crisis in Ghana  making it incredibly difficult for honest and law-abiding citizens to survive.

Surely, the time has now come to demand that the Ghanaian telco industry's well-funded lobbying-entity, the Telecoms Chamber, and the sector government ministry overseeing it, put their feet down, and demand that all the telcos take immediate steps to stop the lucrative enforced-subsription scams, in which relatively small sums (which add up to zillions, every month, it ought to be pointed out, dear critical-reader), are deducted by all manner of sly-chancers (such as those providing caller-tunes for example), from their customers' digital mobile money wallets, without their permission: because those schemes aren't lawfully-binding third-party opt-in schemes in data-privacy-terms?

Enough, really is enough in this matter, oooo, Ghanafuo. The time has now come for MTN Ghana, which has strangely turned a blind eye to this abomination for far too long, to stop the cyber fraudsters stealing zillions from its customers, through illegal third-party enforced-subscriptions, which in reality are grand online larceny schemes,  unlawfully enriching criminal 'service providers' engaged in racketeering and wire-fraud, oooo. Yooooooo...