A-30- year -old hotel cleaner has been arrested by the operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command for defrauding a company of N2 million.
He was arrested on attempting to collect another N500 million after hacking into the company’s e -mail address.
The suspect, Ahuja Sylvester was arrested on Friday by operatives in 911 Hotel, Warri, Delta State.
It was reported that the suspect on April 2017, hacked into the e – mail of a Lagos based company, impersonated as the Managing Director and instructing the firm’s accountant to disburse the sum of N2 million into his Access Bank account.
He also used the same approach in June 2017, to requested for the payment of N500 million into a Zenith Bank account. The company detected this and quickly alerted the police who got him arrested.
During investigation, the RRS, discovered that the initial N2m was withdrawn with a debit card belonging to Ahuja Sylvester.
The accused, in his statement, denied hacking into the account of any company, stressing that one NYSC member, Emmanuel, was the culprit.
According to him,” I met Emmanuel at his work place in April, 2017. He told me that he was stranded and that somebody was going to send money to him.
“He requested that I allow him use my ATM card because he couldn’t locate his own and I did.
” He told me that I should alert him whenever I received credit alert on my phone and I did.
“I expected these transactions to have been completed after two days. After almost a week, I saw him and I requested for my ATM, he told me he was still using it. He later told me that he had misplaced it.
“That was how he didn’t return the debit card again and he disappeared.
“My salary came and I approached the bank. That was when I was told my account was having issues. This was the moment I got to know my account was used for fraudulent transactions.”
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