How I hacked into bank customers’ accounts – Graduate

A graduate of Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Babatunde Fatai,
who is about to begin the mandatory national youth
service programme, said he posed as a genuine lover
to defraud foreign women and men whom he met
on dating sites.

Fatai, who has been arrested by the Oyo State Police
command for various Internet crimes, including
hacking into bank accounts of many people in and
outside Nigeria, had once been arrested for robbery
and arraigned in court but granted bail.
He was arrested with the sum of N2.4m by men of
the command’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad in his
Ogbomosho hideout. Also in his possession were: a
Honda CRV with number plate KWL 280 CN, a Nissan
Altima car with number plate KJA 963 CA, a Ford
saloon car with number plate KRD 837 DQ and a
Toyota Camry saloon car with number plate LSR 418
DJ.
Fatai said he had been in the Internet fraud business
for a long time but could not remember how much
he had fraudulently collected from his victims.
He said, “It is not easy to do Internet fraud. It takes
painstaking effort.
“At times, I would go to dating sites to woo both men
and women. I would make sure they fall in love with
me by regularly sending love and romantic messages
and even calling them until I deceived them into
giving me their account details.
“At times, I would send fake emails to bank
customers making it look like it emanated from their
banks. Then I would ask them to change their
password, PIN or other bank account security details.
“They would be required to input the old and new,
but as soon as I get the old password, I would use it
to hack into their accounts, transfer the money to
the person I’m dating abroad, who would later send
it to me through another means,” he explained.