An ex-Corps member, Adenike Abolade, has narrated how the N189,000 she struggled to save for a period of time suddenly and mysteriously left her account domiciled with the United Bank for Africa (UBA), through a transaction she did not in any way authorise.
The illegal transaction victim, Abolade explained that she only noticed that someone had hacked into her UBA account on May 6, 2023, and was immediately followed with the debits alerts she received for the transaction she did not execute or sanctioned.
Abolade explained that on Saturday, an unauthorised transaction happened on her phone without her consent, indicating that someone she did not know hacked into her account and stole N189,953 from it without her knowledge talk more of permission.
She further said following the development, she visited two different branches of the bank and to her greatest surprise, the bank officials pointedly and arrogantly told her that there was nothing that could be done to recover her stolen money.
In her words: “I went to UBA’s branches in Molete and Dugbe to complain about the unauthorised debit but, the bank officials told me without any form of courtesy that there was nothing they could do about it.
“They also said I had chatted with a fake Leo (the bank’s AI robot), which might have led to the compromise on my account. But I do not believe them. I chatted with Leo in February”.
Abolade further said the money stolen from her UBA account belonged to a grandmother who needed to pay her grandchild’s school fees.
In her words; “The money is not mine. It was sent into my account for a grandmother who wanted to pay her grandchild’s school fees.
“The grandmother did not have an account and she asked to use mine. Three days after I received the money, it was stolen. It is really worrisome, disturbing, and difficult to comprehend. UBA must explain this sudden disappearance of deposit in my account,” she stressed.
