A member of a fraud syndicate, which specialise in generating and using fake bank alerts to dupe filling stations in Lagos State has been arrested by the police
The suspect, Anthony Ofikwu and members of his gang had reportedly duped a filling station in Lagos of over N5,000000 when he was arrested.
The spokesperson of the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the arrest of the suspect to the Tribune Online.
Hundeyin stated that the suspect was arrested by detectives from Isheri police station following a report from Enyo Police Station along Lagoa- Ibadan Expressway.
He added that ” The complainant alleged that whenever they come for their mission, they would request in addition to fake bank alerts, ask for cash transfers and all the transactions would later be reverted to them within minutes.
“Detectives were mobilised to the scene where the suspect was intercepted and taken to the station.
“During interrogation, however, he allegedly confessed to being a member of a fraud syndicate, defrauding filling stations.
“A total of 13 different bank ATM debit cards bearing different names, were recovered from him,” the police image maker said
Hundeyin also said, “He has equally admitted defrauding Enyo Filling Station the sum of N5.1 million since their operations started.”
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