The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has apprehended twin brothers, Obike David and Obike Stanley, who’re infamous for stealing cash from financial institution clients after swapping their ATM playing cards.
The suspects who hang around ATM stands within the FCT faux to help unsuspecting ATM customers, swap their playing cards throughout the course of and proceed to withdraw their cash.
The suspects additionally hang around ATM stands within the FCT, providing help to unsuspecting customers.
During this course of, they might swap the victims’ playing cards and subsequently withdraw their cash
Speaking whereas being paraded on Wednesday in Abuja, David mentioned, “We usually go to the ATM. If we discover any person that we all know who doesn’t know learn how to function the machine and wishes assist, we attend to them.
“We press cardless for him and ask him to fit his card. If he slots his card, we ask him to enter his PIN. If he enters the PIN of his ATM card, then we press proceed for him.
“It will not show cancel. We tell him that your card has been swallowed. Go and report to the security that your card has been swallowed. As the person goes, we eject the card and go away with it.”
Narrating how they have been arrested, David mentioned they have been caught after an ATM person raised the alarm after noticing his card was modified.
He mentioned, “We have been caught as a result of the one that tried to gather his card on that day was good. Which day was that? It’s been as much as two weeks.
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“The person noticed that the card I slotted for him was not his. So, he raised the alarm and we were arrested.”
Stanley mentioned he joined his brother within the crime after he misplaced his job at a neighborhood building firm.
He mentioned within the final six months they realised about N700,000 from withdrawing cash from folks’s accounts.
Stanley mentioned, “I simply began. I joined him after I misplaced my job. I used to be previously a plumber at a neighborhood building firm. It was via my twin brother that I learnt this act.
“The approach we function is that if we went to a gallery then we’d search for any person that doesn’t know learn how to function the ATM.
“Then we’d put it on cardless. We would ask the particular person to fit his or her card. When you fit it, as soon as you place it, it’s going to present on the display screen then press proceed. It will say unable to finish or transaction cancelled. It will let you know that your card has been swallowed and that it’s best to go and meet the safety.
“I’ve been on it now for six months. All I’ve realized so far I think it’s around N700,000.”
He, nevertheless, urged the banks to place measures in place to examine these coming for withdrawals on the ATM galleries.
“My advice to the banks is that they should be watchful for those coming to make withdrawals from their ATMs,” Stanley mentioned.