How scammers defraud ATM users in Kano

By Richard P. Ngbokai




An Automated Teller Machine (ATM) fraud is gradually becoming an issue of serious concern in mega cities across the country.

The crime has become a past time among the young generation of urban dwellers in Kano state.

The operators of this illegal business have no doubt deprived many people of their hard-earned resources as the youth leverage on the imbalance of technological adaptation to extort the unsuspecting users of ATM, who are naïve about the technology.

It is a common phenomenon among the banking publics to receive strange calls or unsolicited text messages purportedly from their bankers requesting for the details of their ATM cards claiming that the cards are being deactivated.

After many naïve bank customers have lost their money through this scam, the banks started sensitizing their customers to beware of strange calls and unsolicited text messages about their bank details.

With the sensitization, many customers become enlightened and started ignoring the dubious requests from the fraudsters thus forcing the criminals to device another scheme to continue their nefarious practices.

In Kano, until recently when the state police command paraded a syndicate of ATM fraudsters, no one ever expected that most of the young men thronging the ATM points in the evening hours are there on a negative mission.

One of the suspects, Umar Ya’u a.k.a Gora, a resident of Tudun Maliki, Zoo Road of Kano metropolis, in his confessional statement said he had bought a car out of the proceeds of the crime.

Gora also said he had trained many young men in the art of extorting money from unsuspecting ATM users with whom he operates.

He disclosed that the highest amount he got at once from the illicit business since he started was N380,000. He said he realises between N20,000 to N40,000 daily before he was eventually caught.

Speaking their mode of operation, Gora said in the evening a group of not less than four members of the syndicate would be stationed at a particular cash machine to pose innocently and observe the customers as they carry out their transactions on the cash machines.

“If there is any customer who has issues with using the cash machine we will come forth in the pretext of assisting him or her, in the process, after having access to the card’s pin number we would exchange the card.

Already we have our own cards and once the person goes away we will take the card to another machine and clear his account.

He revealed that any customer who seems to be too curious about their action would be distracted either by unnecessary question from other members of the group from behind.

“We normally divide ourselves, either one person would step forward to assist and the other person stands behind and that person will intervene in a way that the transaction will fail and in the process the two standing behind will begin to ask the card owner some questions about the card and once his attention is diverted the person purportedly rendering assistance will swap the card with a wrong one” Gora added.

Adamu Iliyu also from Tudun Maliki who was also among the suspects said he had made over a N100,000 in the two operations he had participated before he met his waterloo in the operation in which they were about to withdraw N530, 000.

Parading the suspects, the spokesman of the Kano state police command, SP Magaji Musa Majia advised the ATM users to beware of the scammers posing at ATM points as innocent citizens willing to assist the bank customers in carrying out their transaction.

He urged the ATM users to always protect their ATM personal identification numbers, saying the only persons to assist in event of any difficulty at an ATM poin, are the bank officials.

Gora and Iliyu are residents of Tudun Maliki, while their accomplice, Mohammed Hassan, resides in Kofar Nassarawa of Kano metropolis.

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Eh! see devised strategy to scam people .

This is frontpage worthy.
Mods do the needful

Hausa has joined there brothers from the west in scam.

I've learnt something today.


Thanks for teaching me how to defraud people.


Make I go try am with my village people.


Wish me luck.


The country hard.

These atm scamming methods no dey finish?

Scammer

The strategy is petty.

Even to help is now a wahala

Must every good deed be criminalized

I wholly blame Kwankwanso for this menace

I wonder how they'll swap my card and I wouldn't notice.

So, u dey tell me say I carry UBA card come ATM, u go come swap am with GTB and you think say I no go observe. Na only Aboki una fit do this one for.

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Noted...

In Summary, if you are the type that isn't too good with ATM use, be smart and vigilant while requesting for and accepting help.

Hope those that need the info will see it.

Lazy youths!

"clear his account". Evil!

What happened to atm camera? And all the cctv gadgets installed ? Guess the best is to ensure correct lightening around the machine environment in the night...

Hmm

Check signature

Exchange the ATM Card?

i dont help if u come to me for assistant in using the atm card.

Too much scammers roaming the street.

Sheuns:
I wonder how they'll swap my card and I wouldn't notice.

I swear, when no bi my name dey the card? that scam lame abeg, na only fools e fit work on and dey deserved to get scammed sef

Wow, I thought the guys in the north only know how to drink fura da nunu. This is serious, they have join bad gang!

Meanwhile, check my signature if you're interested in buying an instagram account

When did Hausa people join fraud?

People really need to be careful, instead of allowing strangers to help, while not the bank securities?

okay

I weak

Hmmmm scammers



But

Check my signature

dis na old trick na.

It was even invented before they went electronic by sending text messages and emails purporting to be from the bank.

This trick only affect, the very less educated in the public or elderly and most of them are not on social media.

In this day and age, hardly will anyone with even a below average education will give their ATM card to someone to assist them, when they are at the machine, talkless of allowing some strangers to be as close as 30 feets away.

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nazablossom:
When did Hausa people join fraud?

People really need to be careful, instead of allowing strangers to help, while not the bank securities?

Hausa people no bi person abi ?

Sheuns:
I wonder how they'll swap my card and I wouldn't notice.

It's because you can use ATM, anyone that don't know how to use it can fall victim, they always seem disoriented.

anonymuz:
Hausa has joined there brothers from the west in scam.

mechinougi there eediot