Bank staff foils fraudster’s attempt to empty customer’s account using forged ID, ATM ca

A suspected fraudster has been apprehended by officials of a Union Bank branch in Ogere area of Ogun State in his attempt to withdraw money from a customer’s account.

The 46-year-old suspect, Benjamin Brown Umanah, had walked into the bank with a forged ID card and an Automated Teller Machine, ATM card bearing the name, Fidelis Damar.

He had approached the customer care unit for enquiries when one of the bankers allegedly asked him a sensitive question on the customer’s account.

Luck ran out on him when he was unable to respond in the affirmative.

Umanah who hails from Etete Local Government Area, LGA of Akwa Ibom State, was subsequently arrested and taken to the bank’s headquarters in Lagos from where he ended up in police net.

Confirming the arrest, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, told newsmen that during interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime.

According to him, his intention was to use the ATM card to empty the owner’s account.

Meanwhile, Umanah also allegedly told the police that he had been withdrawing money from bank customers’ accounts for the past three years in the same manner with the help of an insider without any problem.

His case comes up for hearing on March 23, even as he has been remanded in Ikoyi prisons.

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