Officers of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a
syndicate of scammers for attempting to
defraud Enterprise Bank Plc. Ola Lawal,
Olumide Kayode and Abass Adekunle were
arrested following a botched attempt to
compromise the bank’s system and steal
depositors’ funds using an electronic device
known as Keelog Key Grabber. Continue...
The trio’s arrest way made possible by an
insider who revealed to the bank’s
management that some fraudsters were
planning to gain access to its network, using
a device called Keelog Key Grabber.
Investigations showed that, a staff of the
bank, Owolabi Agboola was contacted by one
of the suspected fraudsters, who proposed a
business arrangement to him on how to hack
into the system of the bank. Agboola
subsequently informed management of the
bank and he was instructed to play along
with the fraudster.
In the arrangement, an electronic device
called keelog Key Grabber would be used to
harvest passwords of some of the key
operation staff of the bank. The grabber was
meant to be plugged into the computer
system of the Head of Operation of a
particular branch, to retrieve information
technology configuration settings from the
computer system and pave the way for the
fraudsters to move customers’ funds out of
the bank. Lawal was arrested while trying to
hand over the Keelog Key Grabber to
Agboola.
His arrest led to the arrest of two other
suspects: Olumide Kayode Maborukoje and
Abass Ajibade. Items recovered from them
include: a keylogger, a laptop, a router, a
modem, sim cards, USB keyhole log with a
template of keylogger and a jotter containing
some account numbers which they intended
to use for the fraud. The suspects would be
charged to court as soon as investigation is
concluded.