An Abuja-based businesswoman, Mrs Juliet Okpako, is currently devastated after losing N2.8m to a fraudster who posed as a bank official. The distraught woman said trouble started when a lady contacted her on the telephone and claimed to be calling from her bank. She said I should check my phone and send back the message they sent me to her. I rushed to my bank, but before I got there, all the N2.8m in my bank had been withdrawn. The police and then the bank said they could not trace the numbers that all the money and airtime were sent.

Source: Punch August 22, 2023 14:54 UTC