What would be your reaction if you suddenly received a credit alert of 500k from an unknown sender?
This was my case sometime last month when I received an alert of 500k in my Access bank account.
The sender’s name was unfamiliar, so I started calling people that I know that could have done that, but none agreed to have sent the money.
I also reached out to some of the artists we manage to know if they mistakenly sent that account number to a client for an advance payment for a show or business, but they all declined to have done that.
At that point, I knew that something was wrong somewhere.
It was either the transfer was done by error or someone was trying to carry out some funny deals with my account.
So I waited for an extra day to see if anybody could reach out concerning the money and nobody called.
The next morning, I called my account officer and headed to the bank so they could flag down the money pending when we would be able to trace the sender and find out the purpose of the transaction.
Last week (one month after the incident), I got a WhatsApp DM containing a court order from the Magistrate court in Keffi Nasarawa state demanding that the money be moved from my account to a certain account in UBA or clear my accounts or any other account that is connected to my BVN to pay up if peradventure I had spent the money.
From the tone of his voice when he called later, I noticed that baba was trying to psych me and I was too busy for that as I was on my way to a training session.
I quickly told him not to worry and that I had already reported to my bank from the time I noticed the transaction, so I had to go back to the bank to officially instruct them to send it back to him.
I quickly stopped at the nearest Access bank branch in ikoyi and wrote to them to transfer the money back to him.
The guy couldn’t stop thanking me after he received the money, we exchanged contacts and started chatting and he went on to share some of his previous experiences in similar situations. I told him that I’d had a similar experience in 2021, the money then ran into 7 figures and I returned it too.
Money is sweet, but it’s sweeter when it’s not another man’s sweat and blood.
I feel very uncomfortable when I hear young people justifying fraud, using statements like “anything that brings money is work.”
Sadly, a lot of these young people have come to internalize this demønic ideology about money.
I’m sharing this to show you that some of us who condemn fraud in this space have been tested and tried and we walked away.
Maintaining your integrity at all costs is no joke.
#Donsethbeat
