Panic As Fraud Rocks First Bank, EFCC Wades In

Financial institutions are meant to be a place where monies belonging to their customers are kept, but with the rate of frauds being perpetrated by employees of these institutions, some bank customers have continued to sleep with their eyes wide opened.

One of such banks that fraudulent activities go on is First Bank Plc.

Aproko247 learnt that four members of staff of First Bank were recently apprehended in connection with an alleged N5.1 million scam.

A statement from the EFCC website disclosed that the suspects, Mansur Danlami, Ejiro Eborikpo, Nina Stephen and Samson Nwodo, were nabbed for conspiring to steal the said amount from a customer’s account.

“The suspects, all staff of Zoo Road Branch of First Bank Plc allegedly conspired among themselves to issue ATM card to an impostor, in the name of Samuel Omede, a bona fide customer of the Bank in Bayelsa State,” the EFCC said.

The statement further revealed that, “After the issuance of the purported ATM card, the impostor used the card to steal N5,100, 000 from Samuel Omede’s account.

“The suspects are still being interrogated in the Kano Zonal office of the EFCC and will be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.”

Meanwhile, some customers of the bank have expressed fears over the development. Some of those who spoke with Aproko247 said if these frauds continue, they might be forced to close their accounts with First Bank and move their hard-earned money to other reliable banks.

Not too long ago, First Bank rebranded.