Men of Ogun state Police command have arrested three fraudsters for hacking into a bank account of one Kolawole Sobande and siphoned a sum of N300,000.
The suspects ; Adebayo Oluwatosin 23, Obinna Abiogbe 27 and Segun Adefunmi were arrested on Monday by operatives of the State Police command for stealing .
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state , Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
Oyeyemi said the arrest of the suspects followed an information received from a Point Of Sale operator who alerted the Police.
The PPRO said the POS told the Police in Sango division that one of the suspects approached him to transfer the sum of #100,000 from an account to his own (POS operator’s) account and handed it over to him.
Oyeyemi further added " But when he demanded for his identity card, he discovered that it bears different name to the one on the bank account.
"Upon the information, the DPO Sango division, Csp Godwin Idehia detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspects were arrested."
He said the Police contacted the owner of the account and confirmed that the sum of #300,000 has been removed from his account.
According to the PPRO, on interrogation, the suspects confessed being an internet fraudster who specialized in hacking into people’s bank accounts and siphon their money.
He said the Commissioner of Police Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered a full scale investigation into the past activities of the suspects with the view to arraigning them before a court of competence jurisdiction.
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