Chika Onyegbula, a customer with Guarantee Trust (GT) Bank has detailed how a hacker withdrew the sum of N100,000 from his account and further threatened he could empty it.
Onyegbula disclosed this in a Twitter post where he explained that the bank did nothing when he lodged a complaint.
“This is to inform you about some fraudulent transactions on my GT Bank account. I reported a failed transaction on the 8th of October, 2022 but no response from them. I got some messages inbox directing me on what to do. Unfortunately, all the suggestions didn’t work out,” Onyegbula’s tweet partly read.
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A caller earlier contacted Onyegbula, claiming to be an agent of GT Bank and urging him to divulge his credit card information.
He said: “I was surprised to receive a call from someone who claimed to be a customer service representative from @gtbank on the 14th of October, 2022. He told me my Account number, my home address, the branch I opened the account and the last amount paid to the account.
“He was asking me for the last 6 digits of my Atm card but I did not release it. Within 2 minutes, I received a debit of N100,000 on my account. He called me back to tell me that if he wanted to clear my account that he would have done that.
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“He started asking me for mobile banking details which I still refused to send. I rushed to the nearest branch to report the customer service was zero (nothing to write home about) I had to shout out before the account was placed on hold. I have been receiving calls from the person to release the details of the account but I refused to. The alert I got shows that the debit was made to @paystack account.”
The victim believes the scammer connived with the bank’s officials to steal money from his account.
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“My conclusion is that there is an active connivance between these fraudsters and the IT department of GT bank. I am preparing to visit one of your branches to get this issue resolved,” he said.
As of press time, an email sent to the GT Bank had not been responded to.
