Ghanaian Hip hop artist Sarkodie recently became a victim of online hackers, according to his latest tweet on Monday, 30th March.
According to his tweet, someone hacked into his official email account for his major transactions and bookings and started to impersonate him by requesting money from his contacts.
“Ma email got hacked …. Dude sending people emails asking ma contacts for money smh!! pic.twitter.com/rcj0zZgvTG — Sarkodie (@sarkodie) March 30, 2015.”
The ‘You Go Kill Me’ singer attached a screenshot of an email the hacker sent to UK-based Ghana radio presenter DJ Abrantee, in which the impersonator asked the DJ for some financial assistance:
“Good afternoon and how are you doing bro? I need your urgent help little amount of money to someone for something very important and will be happy if you can help me with this and I will surely refund it back to you one I am back,” the hacker said.
Other celebrities that have fallen victim to hackers are Wizkid and Yemi Alade.