Oyo: Police arrests Adesanya Using Fake Alerts to Defraud POS Operators, Others

Oyo State Police Command has arrested a 45-year-old man, Adewale Adesanya, for generating fake bank alerts and using same to defraud Point of Sale (POS) operators and business owners.

The suspect, Adesanya who was arrested with four bottles of a champagne brand, Dom Perignom, valued at N117,900 each, confessed to reporters that his colleague in the business trained him in the fraudulent act.

Adesanya disclosed that they bought goods worth millions of naira with fake alerts which they generated with an application on their phone.

He stated further that the last transaction he did which landed him in trouble was about N185,000 for which he generated a fake alert for a POS operator in Ibadan.

Adesanya said, “I cannot lie again. It is true we are doing the business. We have an application we use to generate fake alerts for POS operators. I am not the only one doing it. My second person fled when he heard I was arrested. We make millions of naira with this business. The last one I did was N185,000.”

The Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, while parading the suspect at the police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, noted that the suspect who resides at No 7, Awosika Street, Old Bodija, Ibadan, was arrested by a team of detectives led by Insp Esoso Esoso.