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Man assisting bank customer to withdraw from ATM escapes with N10,000

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri

There was a mild drama on Thursday at the First Bank of Nigeria branch at Orie Agu in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo state after a man, believed to be in his late 20s, escaped with the money he assisted a woman to withdraw from an Automated Teller Machine.

The woman, said to be about 55 years old, had approached the young man to assist her withdraw money with her ATM card.

The woman had asked the man to help her withdraw N60,000 but instead, the suspect withdrew N70,000.

A source said, “A woman had approached the ATM point and asked a young man in the queue to assist her withdrew N60,000, because she did not know how to operate the machine. Instead of withdrawing the N60,000, the man, who in all purposes was out to dupe the innocent woman, withdrew N70,000.

“He immediately handed over the sum of N60,000 to the woman and left. The woman, who immediately got an alert, saw that while she was debited N70,000, the  man only gave her N60,000.”

The source said that the woman quickly raised the alarm but the man had disappeared.

An employee of the bank urged customers to always approach the bank’s security personnel to assist them instead of giving their ATM cards and PIN codes to strangers.

He said if they did this, the bank would be held responsible for any loss.

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