U.S. Based Sierra Leonean Reveals Balance of Sierra Leone Bank Account After Depositing Money For 6 Years
Aminata Koroma A viral video circulating on social media has sparked public concern after a woman alleged that she was scammed by a commercial bank in Sierra Leone, resulting in the loss of her savings accumulated over several years.
In the video, the woman claimed that in 2016 she opened a bank account in Sierra Leone before travelling to the United States. She said that while living abroad, she consistently deposited money into the account on a monthly basis for six years, from America to Sierra Leone.
According to her account, upon returning to Sierra Leone in 2022 and requesting access to her funds, she was informed by the bank that her account balance stood at only NLe 300. She expressed shock at the figure, stating that the amount she initially used to open the account was more than the balance she was told remained.
The woman explained that she was unable to immediately challenge the claim because she had left her deposit receipts behind while overseas, . She alleged that without the physical receipts, it became difficult to prove the total amount she had deposited over the years.
Using her experience as a warning, the woman advised Sierra Leoneans living overseas to exercise caution when opening and maintaining bank accounts back home.
She specifically urged members of the diaspora not to operate such accounts alone, but to include a trusted family member as a co-signatory or point of contact to help monitor transactions and safeguard their funds.
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Government should go to the bottom of this
I closed all my bank accounts, period.