A 29-year-old man identified as Adetunji Adesina, has revealed his special method for for robbing customers who make use of ATMs at banks.
The primary school dropout who is from Osogbo, Osun state was arrested by police on Tuesday in Benin city after his recent victim reported to the authorities.
He was arrested while in possession of 10 different ATM cards and cash amounting to N678,000 withdrawn from the account of one Mr. Ekhitomwen Aghama.
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The suspect narrated how he’d met the Aghama at a New generation banks along Sapele Road Benin and proceeded to hoodwink him.
“I pretended that I wanted to use the ATM machine, then deliberately dropped my phone on the ground. While Aghama was trying to help me, I punched the cardless button on the ATM machine.
He was, unaware that I pressed the cardless button, so he thought his card was stuck in the machine and went to seek for help from bank workers. At that point, I removed it from the cardless transaction and removed his ATM card.
I got his ATM pin number when I was pretending to help him and later withdrew 678,000 from his account, using the ATM and PoS, just before I was arrested by the police,” he said.
The victim had gone to his bank to request the blocking of the atm card but had found that N20,000 had been withdrawn from his account.
A week later his N600,000 was also withdrawn by Adesina after his brother abroad had sent him the sum.
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