Nigerians have taken to Twitter to raise alarm over multiple dubious deductions from their accounts with one of Nigeria’s foremost banks, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB).
The customers scattered all over the country have similar complaints of questionable debits they received overnight.
Many of the debits are purported to have been for SMS charges, Transfer Charges and the like.
The debit alerts to many of the customers are for transactions done since 2019, and many of the customers swear they have been debited for the charges at the time.
Find below some of the comments:
@OnuohaNneoma wrote: “I woke up to over 20 debit messages from Gtbank. @gtbank @gtbank_help Clarify why there are multiple debits … I can’t be the only one suffering this..”
Damilola Muyideen OLAJIRE tweeting with @SmilingPen wrote: “Who else woke up to being incessantly debited by GTB this morning? @gtbank. This is an act of fraud. SMS alerts on my account as far back (as) 2019 to 2022, after the usual ones that you’ve always made. Dear public, if you have money in GTB, please just transfer to another bank ASAP!”
@Mhiz_QeeZ: “Guys pls help me. It’s like it’s my turn today with @gtbank. So, I woke up to multiple debit alerts for SMS charges from as far back as 2019 for about #4000. I don’t know what’s happening but I know I need my money back. @gtbank_help This is not the way to start a new month. @cenbank”
@Wolexz_: “Once you see Gtbank trending if it’s for a good thing make I disappear! Always for charges and bad network! Very greedy people! If you leave 1 naira for them na you sabi”
@McPhils__: “While the whole nation was sleeping, @gtbank was busy stealing from my account. Cos what are these charges ffs, I don’t even receive SMS alert🤦.@cenbank you no go talk?”
@Femi_MartinsOG: “I woke up to 17 debits from GTB for SMS charges for the past 12 months, summing to 2 thousand plus, I could swear they debited me back then for some of the months, this is a case of double charging. @gtbank_help @gtbank
@FutureF49255263: “#gtbank what are you guys doing ???
@itswhitendblack: “Why am I being charged for an account I didn’t even open???
@gtbank. I’m only running a current account with you guys, where did savings account come from and how come I’m being charged SMS for an account I didn’t open or know about? @gtbank @gtbank_help
@AchieverIsBack: “Gtbank will rob you without pointing a gun at you
@I_am_Neeyee: “Why did @gtbank remove 18,628 from my account as SMS alert charge? Who did I offend?.. Please who else is being extorted like this.. @gtbank what’s the problem?”
@MrOdanz: “Please how much is stamp duty and how many times SHOULD a bank charge for stamp duty in one month? Because in the last one week, I’ve been debited for “stamp duty” 4 times. @gtbank_help. I just moved all my money out of gtbank. Thank God say I see update.
@janekerry_37716: “Why did @gtbank remove 4,536 from my account as Trx charge? And they wrote charge from the year 2019,2020,2021…When am already in 2022. @gtbank please explain yourself o. Please who else is being extorted like this.. @gtbank. what’s the problem?”
@iam_faith1: “#gtbank I woke up this morning and I realized I have been robbed by @gtbank of #7924 transfer charges on an account I have never used before 😢 this must stop for real. I don’t even receive SMS alert since I stopped it over 2 years now where is this huge debit on SMS coming from?”
GTB is yet to respond to MSN’s enquiries at the time of filing this report.
