The suspect, Victor Adebayo Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have actually captured a 24-year-old alleged serial POS scammer, Victor Adebayo, in Ilorin, Kwara State capital.He was picked up by the intelligence and investigations unit of the corps after defrauding many unsuspecting individuals of more than N700,000. The representative of the NSCDC, Babawale

Zaid Afolabi, verified the development in Ilorin on Friday.According to the spokesman, the suspect, who claimed to be based in Lagos, usually sends informs to unsuspecting POS operators and collects money from them before vanishing into thin air.”On the 13th January 2022, operatives of the NSCDC intelligence and examinations department picked up a suspected serial fraudster who has actually been walking around defrauding people of their hard-earned cash.”The suspect usually goes around in his Toyota Corolla vehicle with a neat appearance and would meet pos operators to offer him money and make a fake transfer which he has actually set on his phone,”Babawale narrated.He specified further that “the suspect has really improved the suspicious act and validated to have been doing it for more than two years including that in some cases he would posture like a pastor to encourage the pos operators or claim that his better half is in labour in the medical facility and need a particular amount of cash.” Meanwhile, some POS operators in the Ilorin metropolitan area thronged the Kwara State Command of the NSCDC trying to catch a glimpse of the serial scammer and those that had fallen victim.The state NSCDC Commandant, Makinde Iskil Ayinla, has also attracted POS operators and the entire people of the state to be careful of deceptive acts by particular criminal elements now going round with the intent of defrauding them of their cash. ToriNG