A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member identified as Busayo Endurance has accused operatives of the Nigeria Police Force of demanding the sum of N500,000 before tracking an online marketer who allegedly defrauded him of N610,000.
Speaking to SaharaReporters, Busayo narrated that he met the marketer, Gadget Sabo Aliu Enterprise-Liberty Enterprise on Jiji to buy a laptop and he was directed to a shop in Abuja.
Busayo said he negotiated with the marketer and he agreed to sell the system for N610,000 and instructed him to send the money to his MoniePoint account which he did.
It was at that point it was clear to him that the online marketer was not the owner of the shop and that he had been scammed.
“The real owner did not allow me to take the system saying the seller has not credited him. So I approached the management of Moniepoint Microfinance Bank who said I should go and obtain a court order for reversal of the money,” Busayo told SaharaReporters.
He said it was at this point he involved the police who demanded the money before they could render any help.
“The police said I should bring N100,000 to secure a court order for me. And they said I should bring N400,000 for tracking.
“I later got a court order and I submitted to the Moniepoint on Friday but they told me the money has been moved from the account.,” the corps member said.
He continued, “It was a lawyer that later helped me to get the court order. The police in Abuja said the scammer is in Benin. And they needed N400,000. But I later looked for a source inside the police in Benin who did the tracking and also said the guy is not in Benin as claimed by Abuja Police.
“They said he is in Lagos State and for them to go and pick him, it will cost them a lot of money. So those ones (the police) are even requesting N500,000 to pick him up.”
“At this point I am stranded because I can’t afford all these money the police are requesting to do their job,” the corps member said.
A copy of the court document made available to SaharaReporters read, “The Application made by the Applicant for the Reversal of the sum of N610,000.00 only made on the 8th October, 2024, which was fraudulently transferred from the Applicant’s account with Account No. 7067738349 domiciled with OPAY DIGITAL SERVICE LIMITED into the account of the 1″ Respondent herein with Account No. 4486290321 domiciled with MONIEPOINT MICROFINANCE BANK (2nd Respondent.) The Application is hereby granted as prayed.
“IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AS FOLLOWS This Hon. Court hereby ordered the sum of N610,000.00 only which was fraudulently transferred from Applicant’s Account into the Account of the 1st Respondent with Account No. 4486290321 domiciled ΜΟΝΙΕΡΟΙΝT MICROFINANCE BANK (2nd Respondent) be retrieved and reversed back to the Account of the Applicant with Account No. 7067738349 domiciled with OPAY DIGITAL SERVICE LIMITED Account belonging to the Applicant herein.
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED the account of the 1st Respondent is not up to the amount, the available fund should be retrieved to the Applicant and all accounts linked to the 1st Respondent’s BVN be put on restriction until the total sum is liquidated.
The corps member added that he later did the tracking of the scammer with the help of his friend.
