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Senator Bala Muhammad,Minister of the Federal Capital Territory has been scammed by a man who specialises in cloning phone numbers used for large scale fraud.
According to Vanguard news, one Ibrahim Sabo Takat, who lives in Wuye District of the FCT, cloned the ministers number and used it to give instructions, as if the Minister was the one doing so.
Takat succeeded in ordering the Chief of Staff to the Minister to pay the sum of N3 million into his own account domiciled with Diamond Bank with number 0011141544, posing as if the Minister was the one giving the order.
Unknown to the Chief of Staff, he quickly arranged and paid the amount into Takat’s account on Thursday, August 8, 2013 without suspecting any foul play.
Shortly after the amount hit the account, Takat promptly withdrew it and disappeared into thin air.
But he ran out of luck shortly after when the Minister smelt a rat and reported the huge swindle to the security agencies, when he discovered that he did not issue any instruction to this Chief of Staff to pay the N3 million into the fraudster’s account.
Takat has been arrested and according to FCT Director of Security he would be charged after investigations have been concluded into the fraudulent act.