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Men of the Rapid Response unit of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a 26-year-old man, Emmanuel Okorafor for alleged ATM card fraud.
According to a statement by the police unit on Friday, December 30, 2022, the suspect has been defrauding POS operators around Ojota, Ogudu GRA various sums of money before he was arrested. He confessed that he started the illegal act three weeks ago.
His strategy was to approach the unsuspecting POS operators like a regular customer to withdraw money.
The statement read in part, “He normally give them [POS operators] a figure in seven, which the operator would enter into his POS (N52,000:00). Once the machine is handed to him to enter his PIN, he would cleverly delete two zeros (N5,200:00) before returning it to the operators.
“With this, the operators pay him N52, 000:00 while he is debited N5, 200:00.
“In his confession, he re-acted same fraud at five POS points yesterday around Ogudu GRA and Ojota before he was arrested in the evening.
“As at yesterday, three POS operators said he played the same trick on them. His ATM card matched that used in defrauding the victims.
“Some of them said they have accused and sacked many of their attendants for stealing their money.”
According to the police, investigations also revealed that the ATM card was used to collect various sums of money ranging from N52,000 to N5500 at many POS points.
