Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

EFCC Arrests Suspected Fraudster Buying Bank Accounts Details for Fraud

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Olawole Sunday, a suspected fraudster who specialised in buying bank accounts’ details from individuals with which he defrauds unsuspecting members of the public. Sunday's modus operandi involved encouraging young people to open multiple bank accounts, pay them either N25,000 or N50,000 for each account and collect their bank details including Automated Teller Machine, ATM cards. Sunday allegedly employed the account details of one Uyi Godstime Eghosa to defraud a petitioner the s…