Police operatives in Anambra state have arrested a syndicate who specializes in defrauding innocent traders, using fake bank payment alerts.
The suspects, Eko Charles, aged twenty-five years, and, Rabiu Idris aged twenty-four, both of Gariki Ugwuoba, Enugu State, defrauded Mr. Godwin Chukwu, a trader at Zik Avenue, Awka, of goods worth four hundred and thirty thousand naira, before luck ran out on them.
According to a release from Anambra State Police Command, signed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Mohammed Haruna, the suspects
went to the victim’s shop, bought two forty-three inch television sets, and generated fake bank payment alerts for the payment of two hundred thousand naira to his phone, prompting him to release the goods to them.
The syndicate returned the next day and collected four televisions and other accessories all valued at two hundred and thirty thousand naira.
The bubble got burst when Mr. Chukwu went to the bank to withdraw the money but was told by the bank that no payment was made into his account.
Police who laid siege for the syndicate around the shop, arrested Eko Charles and Rabiu Idris, when, for the third time, they came to collect a ninety-five inch television, a deep freezer, Sumec fireman
generator which they placed order for, with a promise to send an alert.
Police say the four thirty-two inches television sets earlier collected under false pretense from the trader, have been recovered from Rabiu Idris, while the case is under investigation after which
suspects would be charged to court for prosecution.
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