₦airaland Forum

One of the fastest means it seems of stealing from people's bank accounts in recent times is via their phones which are stolen from innocent Nigerians. I think it is such a shame. I guess the guy couldn't go report the cops for the safety of his life.

A Nigerian journalist Kingsley Momoh, a TV producer with Kaftan Television in Lagos recently fell a victim of these thieves. He says he is in trauma as a result of the robbery. According to the media man, he boarded a bus from Seven Up bus stop along the Lagos Ibadan expressway en route Berger bus stop along the same expressway on his way to his office at Ogba when he was robbed of his belongings including his phones by the occupants of the vehicle at gun point on the 29th of November, 2018 at about 9am.

According to Momoh who was a producer of the Bisi Olatilo Show; his escape from the hoodlums was by providence as he pleaded for his life which they obliged by allowing him to alight from the commercial bus unharmed. As soon as he got to his TV station, he made a call to MTN informing them via their call centre agents requesting for the phone line connected to the line to be blocked as a result of a robbery incidence. Upon confirmation that the line will be blocked, he only had his phone to feel bad about.

Unfortunately for Momoh, the said phone line wasn't blocked and the hoodlums later at midnight transferred over 500,000 (five hundred thousand Naira) to various accounts of other banks which are FCMB, ECO Bank, Zenith bank and First bank.

Momoh in an interview with us told us that the said account belongs to his elder brother while he (Kingsley) is a signatory to the account which gives him same rights to withdraw as his brother. The phone number attached to the account belongs to Kingsley too.

After making several attempts to get the attention of relevant authorities on the issue, it seems every party involved in the case are making Kingsley an orphan as no credible response has come his way from GT bank Ogba branch where he submitted a letter reporting the incidence after the money has been taken, MTN that failed to block the line and the police. He desires the intervention of the authorities that be.

The police requested he paid 100k before anything tangible thing would be done. He said he approached 2 different police formations with similar request made from the police.



https://www.gugurufm.com/2018/12/broadcaster-loses-phone-gt-account-wiped.html

There was a country

Whenever I board any public vehicle, I make it a must to pull out my main phone lines(sims) and replace them with dummy lines(other sims).



Insecurity everywhere! So pathetic!

im not saying im too smart
but im vwry dangerous.
infct i hardly carrt big phone out
i hardly drive slowly
i gor dew scratches dents here and there
normal level.
infct thr was a day i lost my nokia torchlight
and mmy btc na otp for dat nokia.
naso i begin sick .go glo office glo dey talk sim pack
.police report. chai i say naso my 15, 000 dollars wan go like dis God . i called my nokia it rang after two days.fuc i was so happy. eventually the person picked. by evening i don buy 5th bottle for am with peppersoup.dash am 2k.
i gor my nokia back tho it had been smashed. if not i for don run mad unto my btc.. i hardly store money in my accts.if e too much 40k.
i dont enter uber.keke..bus. i dont talk to strangers. i dont carry strangers and my windows are 70percent tinted. sm ppl dey feel say i be sars

That's Nigeria for you. All the institutions are failure .

BruncleZuma:
So this case has been closed before it even began...who come get the other accounts, abi the thief nah Robinhood?

They criminals will hold other innocent ppl hostage, transfer the amounts to their accounts and use their atm cards to pull the money. Thereby cleaning their traces and put the account holders at risk.

adslipps:
They criminals will hold other innocent ppl hostage, transfer the amounts to their accounts and use their atm cards to pull the money. Thereby cleaning their traces and put the account holders at risk.

The thing with criminals is that they always slip up and some are dumber than you think.