I was discussing with a friend yesterday and we were going on about the spate of crime in Lagos, lamenting that things are taking a turn for the worse.
Then he began to tell me his experience with robbers who paid a visit to his compound at Ikeja last week. According to him, they seem to get smarter and smarter. They visited them with POS machines and moved from flat to flat, demanding you make transactions into their account at gunpoint. Once the transaction pulls through, they take your cards, record your pin and they are off to the next flat.

In this way, they drained virtually all the cash in his 3 accounts over the weekend.
Have you been a victim of this mode of crime, come in and share your experience.

Ok

They will soon be caught.Cos it is easier to trace them

I don't believe this story though.

mployer:

I don't believe this story though.

My brother it's indeed hard to believe but it's for real.

oyb:


exactly. story makes no sense.

most especially as bank transfers leave a clear paper trail

You wonder how folks wire cash from people's accounts without leaving a trace? Or you really think robbers who engage in such crimes as this wouldn't have a computer/IT guru in their team? I really want us to be balanced in our submissions.

confun:
Really wondering y its hard for pp to believe the op, this thing happened to a relative of mine few months ago, so it's not new at all.

Thanks for corroborating.

sapiosexual1:
I was discussing with a friend yesterday and we were going on about the spate of crime in Lagos, lamenting that things are taking a turn for the worse.
Then he began to tell me his experience with robbers who paid a visit to his compound at Ikeja last week. According to him, they seem to get smarter and smarter. They visited them with POS machines and moved from flat to flat, demanding you make transactions into their account at gunpoint. Once the transaction pulls through, they take your cards, record your pin and they are off to the next flat.

In this way, they drained virtually all the cash in his 3 accounts over the weekend.
Have you been a victim of this mode of crime, come in and share your experience.

I thank God i decided at a point in my life to do away with ATM CARDS... but they will be caught in no time...

Petroking:




I thank God i decided at a point in my life to do away with ATM CARDS... but they will be caught in no time...

we'll have to weigh the benefits of your action against the risks. Having cards makes financial transactions alot easier. It would also be a hard and almost impossible sell to tell robbers that you've got no card. We only can imagine their reaction on your body as they would take out the beauty from your face.
I think I would have to move most of my serious cash to a specific account and do away with the ATM card while I maintain the other account with some cash, keeping the ATM. May God not allow us experience evil.

sapiosexual1:

we'll have to weigh the benefits of your action against the risks. Having cards makes financial transactions alot easier. It would also be a hard and almost impossible sell to tell robbers that you've got no card. We only can imagine their reaction on your body as they would take out the beauty from your face.
I think I would have to move most of my serious cash to a specific account and do away with the ATM card while I maintain the other account with some cash, keeping the ATM. May God not allow us experience evil.

You are right. God is our security... Something led to me not making use of an ATM card..

taosola:


Then the robbers must be very stupid and senseless. They will be caught as early as possible.

You guys don't seem to believe, indeed I also didn't believe ab-initio. This robbery took place during this festive holidays. We believe when the banks reopen, there would be a clearer lead to this incident. Whatever the development is, I would keep this community informed. Thanks all, just be careful.

Petroking:




You are right. God is our security... Something led to me not making use of an ATM card..

You care to share?

Wow this is mind blowing.. Lalasticlala you need to see this. It sends chills down my spine

Legalize guns in Nigeria.
Problem solved.

boys be plannin new stufs..for new year.#okBye

Adontbilivit

Hmmmmm, this is sophisticated.

We don't have security in this country.

If this stuff is true, then na dis thieves dense pass for this world... Na dem dey supoose dey call Condensed milk....




Neva get lost, own this gps watch that works perfectly with google map...

This is a cock and bull story...crafty imaginations jes to get front page slot...

The robbers are foolishly smart, catching them will be as easy as ABC

thanks

Hope they also asked if it was savings or current account?

I find this hard to believe though. Robbers like physical cash as much as possible.

So imagine they wipe all our accounts over the weekend;

1. How will they withdraw all the fund over the weekend, since there is a limit to how much you can collect via the ATM, even if they transfer to another account or bank

2. So your friend could not contact his bank to have his card blocked and account frozen immediately the robbers left?

Very easy to catch them. Report to EFCC.... the bank account the transfer was made to has KYC details of the account signatories naa

May God save us 4rm all dis scammers by dway frontpage tins

Realdeals:
The robbers are foolishly smart, catching them will be as easy as ABC

thats what they want you to think.

....and if you don't have an ATM card, what will happen?

Will they shoot? If they do, will they achieve their robbery aim? Are they assassins or thieves?

The robbers are very dumb.

Concocted tales

We must be very careful

wat

If our banks are serious, they can be caught, electronic transactions are traceable. Or at least their account blocked and whoever comes to unblock it gets arrested.
And if the money is till in the account, it can be refunded to the owners.

A similar incident happened in where o live in Lagos in an estate. The estate had am atm machine. So the thieves went to a particular flat, asked the tenant to bring her atm, asked for the pin and told her they were going to withdraw money from the atm machine close by and should the pin not work, they were coming to kill her. They divide themselves, one group went to withdraw and the other group took the tenant hostage till the other group come back.