Undergraduate Yoruba actor arrested for faking bank alerts in Ibadan

A popular Yoruba actor, Olumide Olajide has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for allegedly faking bank alerts to defraud the unsuspecting public.

The actor was paraded by the Nigeria Police alongside other criminals at the State Command headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, on Monday.

Our correspondent reports that a Higher National Diploma student who is studying Purchasing and Supply in a Polytechnic, identified as Wemimo Adeyanju, believed to be the actor’s partner in crime was also paraded.

While being paraded, Olajide explained that he would generate bank alerts after taken account numbers
and names of the sellers after buying goods from them.

“If good sellers give me their particulars, I will use the information to generate their details by dialling the USSD code of his bank.

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.

He said, “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 recognised me through the display photograph on my WhatsApp and raised the alarm.”

The undergraduate also told our correspondent that he went out with the prime suspect.

He admitted that Olajide used the fake bank alert to purchase some items on an occasion that he accompanied him.

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

Police sources said Olajide had an app on his phone through which he was generating fake bank alerts to defraud traders.