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| Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service, Dikko Abdullahi |
In an e-mail message sent to this reporter, the hackers had used his
email account to request an urgent financial assistance to be sent to
the customs boss.
The fraudster had requested for N240, 000 as coming from Abdullah to
enable him pay the money to somebody in Nigeria since he was away on a
trip to Saudi Arabia.
Coincidentally, it was gathered that the Customs boss traveled to Saudi Arabia for this year’s pilgrimage.
Part of the letter read: “Hello, I apologise for this sudden request
out of the blue, I made a quick trip to Saudi Arabia; I just discovered
my token device for online transaction is not here with me and I need to
make an urgent payment of N240, 000 to someone in Nigeria. “Let me know
if you can help me remit this sum. I will refund before Friday next
week. Kind Regards. Dikko Abdullahi Inde”.
It was gathered that a similar message was also sent to some operators
in the industry including the President of National Association of
Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Mr. Eugene Nweke.
An industry operator, however, said as far as he was concerned, the
scammers were unintelligent to have sent such messages to people who
know that the Customs boss would definitely not make such request from.
Culled from Thisdaylive.com. Article by Francis Ugokwe
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