Tapjets, the company that alerted authorities to the crime of Nigerian singer, Dammy Krane and his accomplice, Chukwuebuka has revealed how modern mobile technology helped them to detect and trace the fraud.
The Nigerian singer and his accomplice were arrested on the June 2, 2017, in Miami, Florida.
Tapjets who run jets rental services said the fraud was detected with a small token of authenticity.
“He (Dammy Krane) uses Samsung Galaxy 7, and messages did not come from that phone. However, that same phone was used to place the online order with credit card that does not belong to him,” Head of Flight Safety and Security for Tapjets, Konstantin, told Instablog9ja exclusively.
“Same phone was used to register multiple accounts trying to buy with different cards until one finally worked. However, names did not match to zip codes etc.”
The hail-a-jet company revealed that Dammy’s accomplice, Chukwuebuka also tried to purchase flight on another phone with yet another card.
“Total of five cards in an hour till one worked. We are 100 percent confident that our app was on that phone and order was placed via T-Mobile network from cell tower located in Miami area,” Konstantin continued.
“We have coordinates of cell tower and proof that they took a car from that area to Opalacka airport. That’s where arrest took place.”
The company said it is not proud about the incident, but it wants others to think twice before stealing from companies.
“Technology is very sophisticated and being an airline, we have access to the latest. I hope you can help spreading the message that we are not on a witch hunt,” Konstantin concluded.
While Chukwuebuka has been released on bail, it was gathered that Dammy is facing a 9 counts of fraud and grand theft is not eligible to bail yet. However, a defense attorney, Deborah Prager, has now been appointed to represent him.
