Apapa-Warehouse branch of Diamond Bank in Lagos, after disguising as a
bank staff.
so she instructed a relation to pay in the money (130,000) into her
Diamond bank account.
She was in the banking hall, with the money in her bag. While filling
her teller, someone asked her if she was paying in and she said yes. She
later joined the long pay-in queue.
After a moment, and with d queue practically not moving, a
young man, dressed in corporate suit (all thought was the bank’s
cashier) came close to her and in a low voice asked for people who were
paying above N100,000.
About five people stepped out and he asked them to follow him a few
meters away from the queue. They all thought he was the bank’s staff,
out to offer help.
He collected all their money, the completed tellers and asked them to
wait on the line, so he can go in and stamp their tellers…
And so the man left. They waited and waited endlessly, not knowing
that he had long exited the bank, through the rear exit, with their over
N650,000.00.
It was after the seemingly unending wait they decided to report the
matter to the Manager, who had to come down, checked the CCTV footage
and behold, the gentleman in suit, was neither the bank’s cashier nor
even a staff.
The security guard said it was the third time such was happening in that same branch alone.
My fellow Nigerians, we must BEWARE of activities of fraudsters, particularly in banking halls.