A man identified as Nuhu created a scene inside a banking hall of the Gwagwalada branch of Stanbic Bank on Thursday morning when he busted into tears after he was defrauded of N30,000 by a suspected fraudster in the area.
Abuja Metro observed as the victim who was inside the bank shouting amid tears when he was claimed to the bank staff that he has been debited of N30,000 from his account.
It was observed that one of the staff after listening to him and verifying his account details, it was discovered that a suspect defrauded him of the money.
The victim, who later spoke to our reporter, claimed that he received a text message that his ATM has issues and he should forward details to rectify his account details.
“Just this morning when I received a message that my account has issues and that I should forward my ATM details so that they can rectify it, in which I obliged,” he said.
He said “Immediately I received the message; I sent it, the next thing I saw was that a debit alert. And I borrowed the money from a friend to enable me to solve some problems,” he said.
Some bank customers who were inside the banking hall blamed the victim for sending his secret pin to an unknown person, a situation, which left the victim in disarray, shedding tears.
The spokeswoman for the FCT Police Command, SP Adeh Josephine is yet to react to the incident as at the time of filing the report.
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