A banker who was sacked and arrested for alleged fraud, has confessed to “mistakenly” using a bank customer’s ATM card to withdraw cash five times.
The suspect, Uchenna Emmanuel spoke on Friday, 28th of July while being paraded by the Ondo State Police Command in Akure, the state capital.
He claimed to have made withdrawals from the account five times to purchase an undisclosed product to the tune of 35,000 naira. The ex-banker said the POS machine given to him for the transaction was compromised which was the reason he easily carried out the fraud without the use of a Personal Identification Number.
Uchenna said: “I mistakenly used the customer’s card to buy things from a company. I thought it was my card. The manager later found the card with me and I was sacked immediately.
“They asked me how I knew the customer’s PIN, I said I used my PIN. They brought other POS and a policeman also tried his ATM card. The transaction was successful. I used the customer’s card five times.”