The Commander of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, DCP Tunji Disu, has warned Nigerians not to oblige any request from strangers to transfer money into their account for withdrawal at Automated Teller Machines (ATM) cash points.
Disu, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, warned that the kind gesture could land them in trouble as such funds could be proceed of crime.
The commander took to his Twitter page to share the tip and advised Nigerians to always mind their business when they are at the ATM points.
He wrote,
“Mind your business at d ATM cash points.
“Refuse bluntly whenever anybody approaches you and claim that he has exceeded his daily limit, that you should allow him pay some money into your account and you assist to withdraw with ur ATM card.
“The money could be proceed of crime.”
In recent times, commercial bus robbers popularly known as ‘one chance’ and other ATM card robbers have adopted the approach as another means to move money out of the account of their victims.
When they have reached the daily limit of withdrawal from their victims’ bank account, they beg people at ATM points to help them withdraw under pretense that they own the account they are withdrawing from.
See his tweet:
Mind your business at d ATM cash points.Refuse bluntly whenever anybody approaches you and claim that he has exceeded his daily limit,that you should allow him pay some money into your account and you assist to withdraw with ur ATM card.D money cld be proceed of crime.
— Commander RRS (@TunjiDisu1) May 13, 2019
