The EFCC on Wednesday,
July 31, 2013 arrested a notorious fraudster who specialises in defrauding
unsuspecting members of the public through fraudulent bank credit alerts. Wale Olaide
(a.k.a Wale Dollar) met his waterloo when he duped one Abdulhamid Abubakar, a
bureau de change operator of N5, 000,000.00(Five Million Naira only). Olaide
had contacted Abubakar’s younger brother, Hashim, also a bureau de change
operator based in Lome, Togo Republic that he wanted to
purchase Five Million Naira (N5, 000,000) equivalent in CFA Francs. Olaide
requested for his Nigerian bank account to enable him pay in the naira
equivalent. Hashim asked Abubakar to send his First Bank account details to
Olaide.
Abubakar acted
immediately, sent his account details and after a while, he received an alert supposedly
from his bank that N5, 000.000.00 (Five Million Naira) had been credited to his
account domiciled at the Seme Border branch. Upon receiving the alert,
Abubakar informed his brother who in turn released the CFA Franc equivalent of
N5m to Olaide.
The next day Abubakar
visited the bank to withdraw the money, but to his dismay, his account balance
didn’t reflect the said transaction. He complained to the branch manager and
his statement of account was rolled out but the transaction was not reflected.
When Abubakar noticed that the bank couldn’t help, he approached the EFCC.
Series of investigative initiatives by the EFCC yielded the arrest
of Olaide who is believed to be a member of a deadly syndicate involved in
duping unsuspecting members of the public through fraudulent banking
notification alerts.
While, the EFCC is working to unravel the intricate network of
operations of the syndicate, the Commission has appealed to members of the
public to be wary of this new trend in criminality by fraudsters who use phony
credit alerts to defraud others.
No comments:
Post a Comment