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Wale Olaide (a.k.a Wale Dollar)
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The EFCC on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 arrested a notorious
fraudster who specialises in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public
through fraudulent bank credit alerts. Wale Olaide (a.k.a Wale Dollar) met his
waterloo when he duped one Abdulhamid Abubakar, a bureau de change operator of
N5, 000,000.00(Five Million Naira only).
Olaide had contacted Abubakar’s younger brother, Hashim, also a bureau
de change operator based in Lome, Togo Republic that he wanted to purchase Five
Million Naira (N5, 000,000) equivalent in CFA Francs. Olaide requested for his
Nigerian bank account to enable him pay in the naira equivalent. Hashim asked
Abubakar to send his First Bank account details to Olaide.
Abubakar acted immediately, sent his account details and
after a while, he received an alert supposedly from his bank that N5,
000.000.00 (Five Million Naira) had been credited to his account domiciled at
the Seme Border branch. Upon receiving
the alert, Abubakar informed his brother who in turn released the CFA Franc
equivalent of N5m to Olaide.
The next day Abubakar visited the bank to withdraw the
money, but to his dismay, his account balance didn’t reflect the said
transaction. He complained to the branch manager and his statement of account
was rolled out but the transaction was not reflected. When Abubakar noticed that the bank couldn’t
help, he approached the EFCC.
Series of investigative initiatives by the EFCC yielded the
arrest of Olaide who is believed to be a member of a deadly syndicate involved
in duping unsuspecting members of the public through fraudulent banking
notification alerts.
While, the EFCC is working to unravel the intricate network
of operations of the syndicate, the Commission has appealed to members of the
public to be wary of this new trend in criminality by fraudsters who use phony
credit alerts to defraud others.
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