Afimag.com –
Two men have been arrested in Lagos by the Zone 2 Command of the Nigeria Police for allegedly hacking into customers’ bank accounts.
This was contained in a statement by the Zonal Public Relations Officer, SP Hauwa Idris-Adamu, on July 03, 2023.
The statement said that the men were arrested after the bank forwarded a petition to the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of the Zone comprising Lagos and Ogun, Mr Mohammed Ali.
It read in part, “On the 8th of May 2023, a petition was submitted by United Bank for Africa (UBA) to the AIG that there are some syndicates that specialise on internet fraud of various banks in Nigeria, most especially United Bank for Africa (UBA).
“They hack into customers accounts and move their money. Based on the petition, the AIG raised a team of detectives from the Zonal Monitoring Unit, which swung into action with the aid of modern technology.
“The two suspects were tracked down at their hideout at Ijebu Ode, Ogun State. They confessed that they had many syndicates all over Nigeria and that they used software to hack into customers’ accounts and move their money undetected from any bank.
“The modus operandi of these fraudsters is to have a customer’s BVN-linked phone number for easy transfer of money. Consequently, over 1,000 customers’ accounts have been hacked and the customers defrauded across the country.”
According to the statement, investigation revealed that members of the syndicates were from different parts of the country and efforts are intensified to arrest all those connected with the crime.
