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Delta Police Nabs Notorious ATM Cards Fraudster
Delta State Command Tuesday nabs infamous ATM playing cards fraudster, one Ojo Amos at Ozoro, Isoko north native authorities space of the state.
The suspect, 38yrs who hails from Agbara-Otor, Ughelli North Native authorities space specialised in snatching ATM playing cards from unsuspecting victims.
In response to the state Public relations officer (PPRO), DSP Shiny Edafe, “On 2/11/2021 at about 1300hrs, upon a tip-off that the suspect was seen in a POS stand positioned beside First financial institution Ozoro department.
“The DPO Ozoro Division detailed operatives who swung into motion at the side of the chairman Olotu vigilante in Ozoro. They have been deployed to the scene and arrested the suspect Ojo Amos ‘m’, 33 ATM playing cards and a money sum of Fifty thousand Naira(#50,000) have been recovered from him.
DSP Edafe stated the Suspect confessed that he stole one of many playing cards from one Rufai Abdulahi at zenith financial institution, Kwale department and left instantly.
PPRO stated the suspect confessed that he later withdrew the sum of 2 hundred and fifty thousand naira (#250,000) from the sufferer’s account.
Police imagemaker famous that preliminary investigations later revealed that the
suspect often stays behind his victims on the ATM machine ready and concentrating on individuals who he feels usually are not too educated, outdated ladies/kids and as soon as he discover that they’re having drawback.
working the ATM machine, he strikes nearer to them pretending to be a financial institution employees making an attempt to assist them and within the course of he swaps the ATM
card.
“Suspect additionally confessed that he watches them as they enter their ATM pins, memorizes it and after swapping the ATM playing cards, he makes use of both a POS stand or ATM machine to empty their financial institution accounts.
PPRO stated that the ATM serial snatcher has been doing this for the previous 4 years.
whereas advising members of the general public to be regulation abiding and in addition be taught from the circumstances frequently reported by the command for them to be vigilant when making use of their ATM playing cards and be certain that solely uniform financial institution employees be allowed to help them when the necessity arises.
