Actor arrested for allegedly defrauding traders with fake bank alerts in Oyo

• Actor defrauds traders with fake bank alert

• He was arrested by the police in Ibadan

A man named Olumide Olajide, claiming to be a Yoruba film actor has been arrested for allegedly defrauding traders with fake bank alerts in Ibadan, Oyo state.

The man was paraded alongside his partner, Wemimo Adeyanju, at the state police command headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan.

When questioned how he pulled this act, Olajide said he would ask for the account numbers and names of the sellers after buying goods from them, after which he would use the information to generate their details by dialling the USSD code of his bank.

After generating the recipient’s name, he said he would alter the old bank alert sent to him by his bank and change the date and the amount, and resend same to the recipient. According to him, the fake alert sent will show on the recipient’s phone as a genuine alert from his bank.

Olajide said, according to Punch: "I did it just three times before I was arrested. After seeing the alert, they would allow me to go away with the goods paid for with the fake bank alert. I went to another shop and a woman recognized me through the display photograph on my WhatsApp and raised the alarm."

The other culprit admitted that Olajide used fake bank alert to defraud traders.

"He did it once. He was the one who did it, but I followed him that day," Wemimo Adeyanju stated.

Police sources claim Olajide used an app on his phone to generate the fake bank alerts.