The police in Jigawa state have arrested a suspected ATM fraudster who specialized duping POS business owners in Dutse, the state capital.
The suspect, Mustapha Ibrahim, resident of Tarauni LGA, Kano State was arrested after scamming a POS owner the sum of one million, five hundred thousand naira.
Shiisu Lawan Adam, the Police spokesman in Dutse in a statement made available to WikkiTimes said, Mustapha went to a POS shop in Dutse to make financial transaction but ended up emptying the business owner’s account.
According to him, Mustapha made two transfers to Monie Point account belonging to Aliyu Muhammed and another one to Umar Abubakar domiciled at Palmpay, saying that the business owner only realized that he was scammed after the suspect left his shop.
“On the 3/12/2024 at about 1000hrs, one Auwalu Mohammed ‘m’ of Chiroma line Dutse metropolitan reported at Dutse Divisional Police Headquarters that, on the same date at about 1700hrs, unknown person came to his shop with an ATM card and made transaction of money amounting to one million five hundred thousand naira (₦1,500,000.00k) and transferred the money to the account of one Aliyu Mohammed with Account No. 8181306410 domiciled at Monie Point Micro Finance Bank and Account No. 9065664252 bearing Umar Abubakar domiciled at Palmpay”, said Adam.
He added that upon inquiry, the business owner was told that the ATM used in the transaction was a stolen one, which led the police to begin tracking of the phone numbers attached to the accounts.
The spokesman noted that the sum of six hundred thousand naira was recovered from the suspect when he was arrested by the police, adding that efforts are underway to arrest his fleeing accomplices.
