Police have arrested a 22-years-old Aliyu Abdullahi for defrauding an unsuspecting retiree of her gratuity.
Aliu used the retiree’s ATM card to withdraw over N1.8m from the unsuspecting woman’s account in the Kasuwar Mata area of Funtua Local Government Area, Katsina State.
According to the police, Aliu is a specialist in defrauding people with ATM cards and had been arrested several times.
He confessed that he used part of the stolen money to buy himself a car and a motorcycle while he squandered the rest, the police added.
The Police Public Relations Officer for the state, SP. Isah Gambo, disclosed this while parading criminal suspects at the state police command on Monday.
Gambo said, “Based on a tip-off, the command succeeded in arresting one Aliyu Abdullahi, aged, 22 years, of Kasuwar Mata, Funtua, Katsina State, a serial ATM fraudster, who specializes in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public through ATM swap.
“In the course of investigation, suspect confessed to have deceitfully swapped the ATM card of one Maryam Sale of Sharar Pipes, Katsina and withdrew all her life time savings, including her gratuity, the sum of one million, eight hundred and forty-six thousand naira (N1,846,000).
