Canada police have arrested a Ghanaian man, Andrew Boateng Gyimah has been arrested for allegedly selling packaged rice as IPhone after police received reports of his scam from two individuals in Toronto.


He met up with one of his victims in an area of Islington Avenue after the victim had seen an advert he put online.

Then he gave the victim a box in which he said contained the iPhone 6 but when the victim opened the box, all he found was grains of rice.

Another person came forward earlier to report that he had fallen victim to the same trick by the suspect.

He is currently facing two counts of false pretence under $5,000, two counts of breaching a court order and two counts of fraud under $5,000.

Recall the “sharp” dealers at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra who would sell bars of soap and other items to unwitting phone buyers.