How A Man Defrauds POS Attendants In Ibadan.
Oyo State Police Command nabs a 45-year-old man, Adewale Adesanya, who defrauded Point of Sale (POS) operators and business owners with fake bank alerts in Ibadan.
The suspect, who resides at No 7, Awosika Street, Old Bodija, Ibadan, was caught with four bottles of a champagne brand, Dom Perignon, at the price of N117,900 each, which he purchased with the fake alerts.
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While being paraded before newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Pleyel. Adesanya confessed to the crime, he said that they generate the fake alerts from an application on the phones and he has already purchased goods worth millions of naira with fake alerts.
The suspect claimed that his colleague in business trained him in the fraudulent act. He also added that the last transaction he did which exposed him was about N185,000, for which he generated a fake alert for a POS operator in Ibadan.
According to The Daily, Trust reports, He said “I cannot lie again are indeed are doing the business. We have an application we use to generate fake alerts for POS operators. I am not the only one doing it. My second person fled when he heard I was arrested. We make millions of naira with this business. The last one I did was N185,000.”