Five members of a syndicate which specializes in using people’s SIM cards to steal money from their bank accounts have been nabbed by operatives of the Zone 2 Police Command in Onikan, Lagos.
The gang members
reportedly use their victims' SIM card to decode their Bank Verification
Number (BVN) for easy access into their
bank account.
Spokesperson of the
Zonal Police Command, DSP Hauwa Idris Adamu said the suspects comprised a
female and four male. She gave their names as: Daniel Asigbe, Ikechukwu AIgbe, Frank Opara, Seun Dairo and the female
among them, Goodness Ndukwe.
He said;
“Operatives of Zonal
Monitoring Unit have arrested a
syndicate of five persons comprising four males and one female who specialised
in stealing and transferring funds from people’s accounts through their SIM
Cards.
“It all started on
June 20, when Daniel Asigbe, 25, stole a
Samsung X9 from a barber’s shop at the
Lekki area of the state. The said
Asigbe, removed the SIM card and gave it to Ikechukwu who fraudulently got the
owner’s BVN and sent the same to one Yele
(currently at large). Yele later generated and gave Ikechukwu the
account owner’s transfer pin.
“Ikechukwu, then,
transferred N2,300,000 from the account to the third accomplice ,Seun Dairo,
19, account. He also purchased N20,000
worth of airtime from the account. Meanwhile, Seun had given his ATM
card to Frank Opara , 21, apparently for another deal."
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