2 docked for cloning Gov Ambode’s phone number

For allegedly cloning the mobile phone number of the Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode in an attempt to defraud the Accountant General of the state, two men were, on Monday, arraigned before an Ikeja High Court.

The two suspects, Rilwan Jamiu and Balogun Stanley Oyewole, Tribune Online learnt, cloned the Glo telephone number of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and sent a short message (SMS) to the Accountant General, Mrs Abimbola Shkrat Umar, asking her to pay N50 million into an account.

“On February 10, 2016, I received a text message at exactly 12.52p.m. I initially thought the message was from the governor because the name by which I stored his number with was the same one that appeared in my phone inbox.

“The message read: “AG, urgently transfer N50m to Dayder Limited’s account number: 002806988 Keystone Bank. We will talk later.

“I became suspicious because His Excellency does not send a text message for any payment. He normally calls me to his office when the need arises.

“This text message also looked strange because His Excellency would not end his message with H.E, nor start with AG. This is not his pattern. I put a call to the Governor and he immediately asked me to bring the phone number for the security to investigate the text, since the message did not come from him,” Mrs Umar said.