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Man Recounts How A POS Attendant Almost Swindled Him

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4 years ago

Aug 4, 2020.

A Twitter user identified as Kelly Ovie has narrated how an attendant at a Point Of Service Shop, almost swindled him of his hard earned morning.

According to Kelly, he went to a POS shop to make some financial transactions from his first bank account into his Zenith Bank.

While he was at the shop, he recalled that the attendant at the shop had asked him to call out the details of his account loudly to her, unknown to him that the attendant and her friend had conspired to defraud him by showing him fake transaction.

Kelly said he left with the expectation that the delay in the transaction was due to the network issue but was shocked when he came back after 5hours and demanded to see the transaction history as he is yet to receive the money.

He wrote, Today, I went out to a POS station to credit money from my First Bank account (which I don’t use for internet banking) to my Zenith Bank account (which I use for internet banking). It was to enable me send cash to a friend and also to make some other financial transactions.

After successfully withdrawing the money, I asked the cashier, a young girl who should be about 15 – 17 years, to send it to my other account as per my intention. She asked for my details, and I gave it to her.

Rather unusually, she asked that I read it out loud for her and soon after showed me a debit alert of the transaction being successful. I didn’t get an alert on my end to corroborate, but I left assuming it was some network issue.

Some five hours later, when I still hadn’t received a credit alert, I went back to make complaint. She claimed it was probably the network issues with banks and that I should give it some more time.

Reflexively, I requested to recheck for the debit alert, which she had received just to be sure there hadn’t been a mix-up. She obliged.

I went through the alert information and discovered something funny. There was a number attached to the “First Bank” debit message she received, which I instinctively considered odd. I called the number and her friend’s phone rang right before us.

Long story short, this demon had me read my account number and name for confirmation, just to have her friend type out a debit alert; her friend whose number had been saved as “First Bank.” I was furious nd was near physically violent, restraining only because she was a child.

But I was angry, and I yelled at her, which attracted a crowd. I explained to them what had happened. Someone called her employer and I had my money returned to me.

She had been running this scheme for a some time on unsuspecting people. The fact that you can’t even trust guys these days.

Things dey occur for this country!!!

Today, I went out to a POS station to credit money from my First Bank account (which I don’t use for internet banking) to my Zenith Bank account (which I use for internet banking). It was to enable me send cash to a friend and also to make some other financial transactions.

— Mr. Brume (@KellyOvie231) August 3, 2020