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I spent about 8 years of my roughly 15 years in the banking sector as team lead of e-banking dispute resolution team and deputy head of E-banking Operations. In that role you get to see a lot of things that banking code of ethics won’t allow me to divulge even now – the good, the bad and the disheartening. You see how e-fraud traps ensnare both innocent and greedy folks, alike. And it was one of my roles to help the bank’s investigation department to unravel them.
But it was only one incidence of e-fraud that made me cry. The victim was an elderly man who just retired from service, after 35 years or so. His total gratuity was some N600,000.00 in 2009 or 2010 monies.
This fresh pensioner, despite repeated education by all financial institutions not to divulge personal account information, clearly compromised his account details and was hit hard, by online fraudsters like HUSHPUPPI. Between 11.55pm and 12.05am, on this sad day, the whole dividend of 35 years was gone!
By the morning, a call from both the branch and the customer service managers of the man’s branch was transferred to me. Case was reported, and I requested to speak with the old man…
I asked him many questions, and it was obvious he compromised his details after falling prey to certain schemes. The man didn’t cry, but in trembling and stuttering voice he kept asking me just one question: “se gbogbo e ti tan ni yen”? Is everything truly gone? Is it all finished…?
Tears rolled down my cheeks, as I affirmed the sad reality. I transferred the case to the bank’s investigation unit which triggered hitech investigation in conjunction with police’s FIU…
So, if you are a fan or defender of HUSHPUPPI and his associates, this is just an example of the misery their “profession” wrought on innocent lives.
But then, let us all know that NATURE is a very strict accountant. On a day of reckoning, it balances scores, reconciles accounts and correct misgivings without mercy.
