How N450,000 Loan Disappeared From Retiree’s Wema Savings account

Last Updated: January 15, 2022By Tags: , , , , , ,

< img src="https://eyewitness101.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/how-n450000-loan-disappeared-from-retirees-wema-bank-account.jpg"width ="450" height="339"alt > A retired civil servant from The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, Beatrice Adeyeye, has raised the alarm over the disappearance of the amount of N450,000 from her Wema Bank account.

The pensioner intended to utilize the cash, which was a loan from a cooperative society, to assist in a personal job.

According to FIJ, Adeyeye stated that the debit informs on her cellphone showed that the cash was moved through the Automated Teller Machine from the Wema Bank branch inside the campus, and that her ATM card was in her possession all through the duration the deceptive deal was being performed.

“The debit signals were two. When I saw the first one around 3:00 pm on Monday, I ran inside to check my safe and to my surprise, the card was intact. I saw another one. A total of N450,000 had actually been transferred out of my account,” she stated.

Adeyeye stated she had on Friday attempted to use an ATM coming from another bank in the Ojoo location of Ibadan when the ATM took her card.

She instantly hurried to the Wema Bank branch on school to lodge a problem and she was released a brand-new ATM card that very same afternoon.

Under the guidelines of the Central Bank of Nigeria, all industrial banks are required to block an old ATM card for customers prior to a new card was provided.

Following the deceptive withdrawal of N450,000 from her account, the pensioner visited the bank, however she was told the new card was most likely stolen from her.

“The lender asked me for my bank details and the time the transaction was carried out,” she said.

“He inspected their CCTV and revealed me a clip of the supposed consumer that used their ATM at that time. When I insisted that the new card was not taken from me, they asked me to come back on Wednesday.”

On getting to the rely on Wednesday morning in the company with her boy, Adeyeye was very first asked by the bank manager if she was negligent with her card information.

Olaitan, the female’s oldest child, stated that two employees at the bank took his mother to the ATM on Wednesday for account verification.

“When they asked her to input her ATM card, among them was video-recording her behind the maker,” he said.

“I think that is less than professional to do. After doing that, the very same card failed to confirm the PIN she when used.”

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