TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN writes about how criminally-minded customers use fake credit alerts to pay for goods, thereby making sellers to incur losses
“I engaged in many menial jobs including working as a factory worker. I also worked in poultry but it was too stressful for me. When I got a job as a PoS attendant, I was excited that the pay would help me to attain my academic goals. She said, “It was when I screamed that the people in the neighbourhood came and told me that I probably had fallen victim to a fake alert. They sympathised with me and that was where it ended. When I told my boss, she felt sorry but told me that I would have to refund her. She has been deducting N15, 000 from my money monthly.’’
Agatha stated, “They came to the shop disguised as workers working in a site behind our house unknown to them that they were thieves. They perfected their plan to the extent that they even wore clothes of people working in a construction site to deceive them that they were working on the site. They requested withdrawal of N30, 000 and did a transfer. My sister called me to inform me that a transfer of N30, 000 had been made to my account but I told her I had yet to receive the transfer.
She stated, “When I got home, I already observed the way the issue was and I had yet received the money in my account. I waited till the end of the day and it was still the same thing. They fleeced us and even dropped an android phone as collateral. The phone was also a useless piece of item.’’ Mr Sayo Jimoh is another PoS operator who suffered at the hands of those using fake credit alerts to defraud people. He told our correspondent that he had been swindled by them many times.
“I found out later that something was wrong with the credit alert I received. Since then, I decided to always confirm payment in my account before parting with money,’’ he said.She explained that she suffered scams on a number of occasions via fake credit alerts despite not making much profit from the business.
She stated, “I warned both my children and my sales attendant to check with me to ensure that I have received any money in my account before giving any customer who wants to withdraw money.
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