Story from Kenneth AFOR, Lagos
A man who claims to be a Yoruba film actor, Olumide Olajide, has been arrested for allegedly defrauding traders in Ibadan, Oyo State capital with fake bank alerts.
He was paraded on Monday at the state police command headquarters, Eleye, Ibadan, alongside his partner, Wemimo Adeyanju, a Higher National Diploma (HND) student at the Polytechnic of Ibadan.
Olajide explained that he would generate the fake bank alerts by asking for the account number and names of the traders after buying goods from them which he would use the information to generate their details by dialling the USSD code of his bank.
He further explained that after generating the recipient’s name, he would alter the old bank alert sent to him by his bank and change the date, amount and resend the same to the recipient.
According to him, the fake alert sent will show on the recipient’s phone as a genuine alert from his bank.
He said, “I did it just three times before I was arrested. After seeing the alerts, they would allow me to go with the goods paid for with the fake bank alert. I went to another shop and a woman recognised me through the displayed photograph on my WhatsApp and raised the alarm.”
His partner also disclosed that he goes out with the prime suspect, admitting that the latter used the fake bank alert to purchase some items on days they go out for the operation.
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