Airtel's customer service representative, Jeremiah Mustapha, conspired with a fraudster, Nurudeen Salimu, to fraud one of Airtel Nigeria's subscribers of N2.2 million through the use of his phone number. Mustapha diverted messages, alerts and calls of the Airtel subscriber to the fraudster, to enable him impersonate the subscriber at the bank, and also disconnected the line from the network to hide their activities.

Salimu was said to have gone to the bank to act as the owner of the account in order for him to access and withdraw the N2.2 million. The actual owner of the account was identified as Kazeem Dele. His signature was forged to... https://allnews.ng/news/airtel-s-staff-steals-n2-2m-with-subscriber-s-phone-number