Lady threatens to commit suicide after N4m disappeared from her Zenith bank account
A Zenith Bank customer has threatened to commit suicide if the over N4m naira stolen from her account is not reversed.
The lady, Chiamaka Agim, told The Punch that she was ‘fraudulently’ debited that amount on January 9, 2023, without her authorization.
The lady, who claimed to have once worked for Zenith Bank, said:
“I should be asking Zenith Bank how it happened. It is in the bank that my money was lodged and it is in that same bank, under their watch, that my money was fraudulently stolen, and they have not given me a satisfactory response as to how they will refund the money I kept in their care. It happened on January 9, 2023, at about 8.43 pm. I got a debit alert, first to an Access Bank account. It was N3.7m, transferred from my account to the Access Bank account. I was confused because I knew I never authorised such transactions. I couldn’t have done such a transaction in the first place. That money is my life’s savings. Why will I transfer it to an unknown Access Bank account just like that? It does not add up. I want to state it clearly that I didn’t authorise that transaction. Before I would know what was happening, I got another alert of N222, 900 in a space of just one minute. I was trying to go into my mobile app to check what was happening when I saw the alert sent to the same Access Bank account where the first N3.7m was illegally transferred to.
It was not even up to another minute, I got another debit alert of N102, 000 to a UBA account. Everything withdrawn was over N4m. What was left in my account was about N12, 900.
I couldn’t even breathe well. I couldn’t think. In a space of five minutes, my entire life’s savings were wiped off. I don’t know who did this and I don’t know how it happened but I am begging Zenith Bank to refund my money.”
The victim of fraud said she visited the bank the following day and they told her she authorized a token. She denied this
She said she went to Access Bank as well and was told the money had been moved out of the account it was sent to.
“The point is that I am an ex-staff (member) of Zenith Bank. I worked with their Apapa branch. The account in question was a staff account opened by the bank to pay my salaries and other emoluments. Zenith Bank should just return my money. N4m cannot be fraudulently taken from my account and they are telling me that it is gone like that. It is not possible. I won’t have it. They have to refund my money. I don’t have any other money anywhere. I don’t have any other bank account anywhere. That is my entire life’s savings that has just been wiped off in a twinkle of an eye.”
The rest of the story can be found in the Punch.
