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| Wale Olaide |
The EFCC on Wednesday,
July 31, 2013 arrested a notorious fraudster who specializes in defrauding
unsuspecting members of the public through fraudulent bank credit alerts. Wale
Olaide (a.k.a Wale Dollar) met his Waterloo when he duped one Abdulhamid Abubakar,
a bureau de change operator of N5, 000,000.00(Five Million Naira only).
Olaide had contacted Abubakar’s younger brother, Hashim, also a bureau de
change operator based in Lome, Togo Republic that he wanted to purchase Five
Million Naira (N5, 000,000) equivalent in CFA Francs. Olaide requested for his
Nigerian bank account to enable him pay in the naira equivalent. Hashim asked
Abubakar to send his First Bank account details to Olaide.
Abubakar acted immediately, sent his account details and after a while, he received an alert supposedly from his bank that N5, 000.000.00 (Five Million Naira) had been credited to his account domiciled at the Seme Border branch. Upon receiving the alert, Abubakar informed his brother who in turn released the CFA Franc equivalent of N5m to Olaide.
To his surprise, when Abubakar visited his bank to withdraw the money following day, his account balance didn’t reflect the said transaction. He then made complain to the branch manager who could not do anything !!! When Abubakar noticed that the bank was incapable to render any help, he approached the EFCC.
With investigative initiatives by the EFCC , Olaide who is believed to be a member of a deadly syndicate involved in duping unsuspecting members of the public through fraudulent banking notification alerts was later arrested.
Abubakar acted immediately, sent his account details and after a while, he received an alert supposedly from his bank that N5, 000.000.00 (Five Million Naira) had been credited to his account domiciled at the Seme Border branch. Upon receiving the alert, Abubakar informed his brother who in turn released the CFA Franc equivalent of N5m to Olaide.
To his surprise, when Abubakar visited his bank to withdraw the money following day, his account balance didn’t reflect the said transaction. He then made complain to the branch manager who could not do anything !!! When Abubakar noticed that the bank was incapable to render any help, he approached the EFCC.
With investigative initiatives by the EFCC , Olaide who is believed to be a member of a deadly syndicate involved in duping unsuspecting members of the public through fraudulent banking notification alerts was later arrested.
The EFCC has appealed to members of the
public to be wary of this new trend in criminality by fraudsters who use phony
credit alerts to defraud others.
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