Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, Senator Bala Muhammad, has fallen victim to a man, who specialises
in cloning phone numbers and using same to commit large scale fraud in the
process.
The Minister, according to security
information, fell into the trap set for him by one Ibrahim Sabo Takat, who
lives in Wuye District of the FCT, who used his phone number and gave
instructions, as if the Minister was the one doing so.
In particular, Takat succeeded in
ordering the Chief of Staff to the Minister to pay the sum of N3 million into
his own account domiciled with Diamond Bank with number 0011141544, posing as
if the Minister was the one giving the order.
Unknown to the Chief of Staff, he
quickly arranged and paid the amount into Takat’s account on Thursday, August
8, 2013 without suspecting any foul play.
Shortly after the amount hit the
account, Takat promptly withdrew it and disappeared into thin air.
But he ran out of luck shortly after
when the Minister smelt a rat and reported the huge swindle to the security
agencies, when he discovered that he did not issue any instruction to this
Chief of Staff to pay the N3 million into the fraudster’s account.
The FCT Director of Security
confirmed the arrest of Takat yesterday to journalists in Abuja and said that
he would be charged after concluding investigations into the fraudulent act.
Takat was paraded by Ibrahim Halilu,
on behalf of the DSS Director FCT Command, who also asked members of the public
to be careful with the way the handle their phones and who they give their
numbers to.
Source: Vanguard
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