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Watch Out For This Suspected ATM Fraudster, EFCC Warns Nigerians by tupez(m): 10:23am On Jul 19, 2016 |
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has raised the alarm about the
activities of identity thieves and automated
teller machine fraudsters in the country.
It has also urged Nigerians to be more
careful when carrying out transactions via
ATMs and to avoid disclosing their Personal
Identification Numbers to others.
In a post on its Facebook page, the anti-
graft agency drew attention to the activity
of one suspected ATM fraudster, who goes
by the name Akinade Tofunmi.
The EFCC, which has released images of
the suspect, is seeking the cooperation and
support of Nigerians to capture her and
prevent her from defrauding more people.
The suspected scammer, who is being
trailed by the Ibadan Zonal Office of the
EFCC, is into identity theft and lurks around
the ATMs and Point of Sale machines.
According to the EFFC, Tofunmi, operates
late in the night when all bank transactions
had closed and preferably over the weekend
when her prospective victims may not be
able to alert the banks for any unauthorised
transaction.
“In her last operation, within twenty four
hours; this fraudster who operates with the
identity of her victims succeeded to have
raked in about three million (N3m) within
24 hours,” the anti-graft agency revealed.
One of the methods employed by the
suspected fraudster is to approach people
having difficulty using the ATM politely and
in a cultured manner and offering to help
them, only to dupe them in the end.
For instance, on Friday, June 3, 2016, the
EFCC said she had helped a woman known
as Alhaja to withdraw money at an ATM in
Ibadan. But instead of returning the ATM
card to the woman afterwards, she
swapped the card with another in her
possession.
Equipped with the card and the pin as well
as with the knowledge that N3m was in the
account she made several ATM withdrawals
and carried out PoS transactions.
The EFCC added, “Having exceeded the
daily withdrawing limit for that day, she
waited for a few minutes to the following
day which was a Saturday.
“Shortly after midnight, she made another
rounds of withdrawals to the tune of one
hundred and fifty thousand naira which was
also the daily limit for that day.
“However, Alhaja and her husband had no
one to run or call that night to save the
situation when the debit alerts start coming
in torrent.”
Not satisfied with what she had stolen, the
fraudster started transferring funds out of
the account to another one.
“In a desperate need of where and how to
empty the balance in the account, she went
to a night club where she met a motorcycle
transporter, popularly known as Okada
whom she approached for a help. Her
decoy was that she had enough money in
her account but could not access it having
exceeded her daily withdrawal limit,” the
EFCC said.
“She showed the bike man her balance and
pleaded with him to give her his ATM card,
account details and PIN for a quick teller
transfer from her (Alhaja’s) account to the
bike man’s account. With that, she has
been able to secure some of Alhaja’s
money in the bike man’s account thereby
stealing the identity of the unsuspecting
bike man.”
She continued her scam when she got the
motorcyclist to take her to a hotel.
“At the hotel reception while paying for her
accommodation which was N10, 000 for
one night, she deliberated credited the
hotel’s account with N101, 000 feigning a
mistake and demanded a refund of ninety-
one thousand naira (N91, 000) balance of
an overpayment. This was also done with
Alhaja’s ATM card through the POS
machine at the Hotel.
“To further conceal her identity, she
provided fake personal details in the hotel
and gave the hotel the bike man’s account
detail when the hotel management
requested for an account to deposit the
refund.
All these happened on Saturday; hence,
Alhaja and her husband are still in dilemma
with no help in sight to stop the
transactions in the account.
“By Sunday, Alhaja’s money had moved to
the fraudster both in cash and through
transfer to the bike man account domicile
in the same bank. All these while, the
fraudster was in possession of both Alhaja
the first victim and the bike man, the
second victim’s ATM cards.”
The bike man was arrested on Monday
June 5, when he could no longer reach the
fraudster on phone and went to the bank to
request for another ATM card.”
The EFCC said the suspect has defrauded
others and has been spotted in other parts
of the country. |
Re: Watch Out For This Suspected ATM Fraudster, EFCC Warns Nigerians by 9jaRonin(m): 10:49am On Jul 19, 2016 |
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