How we purchase goods with fake bank alerts – Suspected fraudster confesses

Adewale Adesanya, 45, has been apprehended by the police in Oyo state.

He was arrested for using fake bank alerts to scam Point of Sale (POS) operators and business owners.

The suspected fraudster, who was caught with four bottles of a champagne brand, worth N117,900 each, confirmed to newsmen that his colleague who is also into the business trained him.

He said they purchased goods worth millions of naira with fake bank alerts they get with an application on their phone.

The suspected fraudster said the last transaction he engaged in, which exposed him was about N185,000 for which he got a fake alert for a POS operator in Ibadan.

He said, “I cannot lie again. It is true we are doing the business. We have an application we use to generate fake alerts for POS operators. I am not the only one doing it. My second person fled when he heard I was arrested. We make millions of naira with this business. The last one I did was N185,000.”

While parading the suspected fraudster, at the police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, the Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, said the suspect who lived at No 7, Awosika Street, Old Bodija, Ibadan, was apprehended by a team of detectives led by Insp Esoso Esoso.