Osasi Chinozom Juliet was arrested less than 24 hours after a man complained that she switched his ATM card and withdrew N15,000.
The Kano State Police Command has arrested a suspected female fraudster who would pose as bank staff, pretend to be helping customers with difficulty using ATM and then switch their cards.
The suspected fraudster, Osasi Chinozom Juliet, was arrested on March 18, less than 24 hours after a man complained to the police that she switched his ATM card and withdrew the N15,000 in it.
Spokesperson of the command, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday April 4, said the suspect was found in possession of 17 ATM cards of different banks at the time of her arrest.
The police spokesman said the suspect had been on the wanted list of the command for fraud-related cases.
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The police statement reads: “On 18/03/2022 at about 1730hrs, a team of Operation Puff Adder led by SP Daniel Itse Amah, Divisional Police Officer, Nassarawa Division while on surveillance patrol along Murtala Mohammed Way intercepted one Osasi Chinozom Juliet, ‘f’, 24 years old, of Enugu Road, Sabon Gari Kano,” Kiyawa stated.
“The suspect has been on the wanted list of the command for fraud-related cases. On spot search, she was found in possession of 17 ATM cards from different banks.
“Before her arrest, one Yusuf Tijjani, ‘m’, complained that, on 17/03/2022, the suspect approached him while seeking assistance to operate an ATM, deceitfully collected, and changed his ATM card, and withdrew the sum of fifteen thousand naira (N15,000:00) from his account.
“On investigation, she confessed to the crime. She further confessed that she specialized in swapping ATM cards by claiming to be a staff of the bank where she met customers to assist them to operate the machine,”
“She has ATM cards from almost all the banks in Kano, making it easy for her to swap the ATMs. She claimed to have withdrawn money from many people’s accounts after swapping their ATM cards,”
“Discreet investigation revealed that the suspect deceived, swapped the ATM cards of many victims, and withdrew money from their bank accounts. She has been charged to court for prosecution,” the statement read.
The commissioner of police Kano State, Sama’ila Shu’aibu Dikko, warned other criminals in the state that there is no hiding place for them.
”They are advised to either repent or leave the State completely, as no stone will be left unturned. Otherwise, they will be arrested and face the full wrath of the Law,” he said