NewStats: 3,264,652 , 8,184,340 topics. Date: Wednesday, 11 June 2025 at 09:02 PM 2g5k23

Good evening all I’m gonna make this very brief plz I need help

Someone stole my phone this morning and within 3hrs i opened my bank app only to realize they’ve taken over 180k from my with the bank description of “intrabank charges”

I called UBA immediately and still went to their branch they got my frozen with the where the money was transferred to because it’s also a UBA

I’ve written the letter they asked me to write and they said they’ll get back to me within 5 working days


Now since there’s a valid recipient where the money was transferred to is there no way I can catch the culprit with help of the police? My iPhone 11promax of barely 6months gone with money

I had to call MTN too to block my SIM

Please is it possible to get the person tracked and arrested

Modes please move to front page Lemme know my next action thanks

NB: both my and fraudsters where he sent the money to has been frozen by UBA because we use same bank

Give the person some time abeg to clear the .
Recipient might be an innocent POS operator.

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What you all gangsters stressing my life have failed to address is why it took him 3 hours to act. 'cause he could have easily blocked his SIM with the next man's phone. Network would only ask a few standard questions.

EmptyGarden:
Give the person some time abeg to clear the . Recipient might be an innocent POS operator.

Give him some time to clear my hard earned money? Really lol it’s all cruise till it happens to you or someone dear to you

taylor89:


Give him some time to clear my hard earned money? Really lol it’s all cruise till it happens to you or someone dear to you

Your hard earned money and you had to wait for 3 hours to do the needful? Moreover, shouldn't your bank app or phone be -protected? I use thumb print on mine for instance.... So the question is, how did they do it? Well, or not, the first thing I'd do is block my SIM and that shouldn't take 3 hours.

EmptyGarden:

Your hard earned money and you had to wait for 3 hours to do the needful? Moreover, shouldn't your bank app or phone be -protected? I use thumb print on mine for instance.... So the question is, how did they do it? Well, or not, the first thing I'd do is block my SIM and that shouldn't take 3 hours.

They didn’t open my phone I guess they did all via USSD, I never thought this could be possible till the banker told me they would reset my via sms. The stolen phone didn’t have my bank app on it either

taylor89:


They didn’t open my phone I guess they did all via USSD, I never thought this could be possible till the banker told me they would reset my via sms. The stolen phone didn’t have my bank app on it either

They would still need access to your phone to use USSD, and even USSD transactions require s.

EmptyGarden:

They would still need access to your phone to use USSD, and even USSD transactions require s.

Are you this stupid and daft? Like they can’t remove my sim and put on another phone? You’re really an empty garden please stop derailing my topic till brainy ones bring up an idea

Requiring my transaction ? Did you not read the part I told you they could reset my transaction pin via sms according to what the banker told me

Put a sim lock on your phones especially the one that receives alert. This is getting too rampant. If asked for pin, use the default pin that comes with every sim pack. For MTN it's 00000, for AIRTEL it is 1111, for 9mobile it is 0000, for GLO it is 0000. The thief will try to gain access to the sim without success and PUK number will be required, if the PUK is attempted up to 10 times, the sim is automatically blocked. Phone lock is not enough anymore

Always enable SIM lock.
Very very important

Offer reward to the thief to return your losses.....?

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Sorry about your ordeal OP the culprit will surely walk Into the bank to make a complain so once the customer care rep sees what’s up they’ll alert the police so the thing is you just need to keep up with your bank provider

Sad thing is the iPhone they will sell the iPhone in parts I hope you catch that bastarddd

Ah.


Sorry to say bro but I think you were careless.


You know why?

Okay I’ll tell you why.


1) You have an iphone and you did not put a code or facelock or both. There is no way in this lifetime that your iphone, with all these set up, will get hacked or opened by anyone.

2) You did not set a pincode on your sim card. Even if you had secured your phone, putting your sim card in another phone would have rendered it useless.

3) What sort of tech department does UBA have that someone, a random person can just open their bank app and transfer money?

Did you not set a or face id for accessing the app? After that did you not set a transaction pin for completing transactions?

Even if they managed to get your iphone without security locks and decide to reset your and pins, did you not set security questions? I think Kuda even has a separate transaction pin for resetting all these deets.

Even resetting your USSD pin these days require you to answer security questions.



Lastly, your iphone got stolen and you did not quickly access Find My Iphone from the nearest computer to render the phone useless?


Nawa o op.

Dangerous, how do they do this
People in the system, and former Fraudsters, educate us.

R

Same thing happened to me in 2019..
My brother those bastards emptied my .

And I bought the phone less than a month. Omo I no even bother tracking sef. Because I blamed myself entirely.

Anyway when you retrieve your line, try putting your SIM on lock.

That's what I did subsequently.

You can track the phone and if the person is not smart, you can catch the person otherwise oyo

Ha! For this hard time

Pls, people should try and learn how to put s on your sim and move your BVN and number to your sim.

Putting s for your sim will have help you in this situation now.

Op sorry oo

They will get it for you since it's the same bank you can get your phone back by tracking the person through your IMEI number.

Relax Op you'll get your money. Just follow up with the matter

Same thing happened to me ooo

Just last week my phone was stolen and all my money transferred to another .

The person sef change my email linked to my

Now I put on my phone, my sim, I use AppLock for apps, proton mail is my new mail super secure, and also add 2 step authentication recovery mail and phone number, Google authentication and codes to my most important mail

taylor89:


Give him some time to clear my hard earned money? Really lol it’s all cruise till it happens to you or someone dear to you

Him get N5000 for accant

You no see him moniker Empty garden

How him won take understand wetin you dey talk

But why you wait for 3 hours

Let's hope you get your money back!

Never activate an ATM card or activate USSD for the Bank where you have huge funds

What happened to ops can happen to anyone, that is why you should only have the money you can loose in the bank associated with your ATM and USSD

taylor89:
Good evening all I’m gonna make this very brief plz I need help

Someone stole my phone this morning and within 3hrs i opened my bank app only to realize they’ve taken over 180k from my with the bank description of “intrabank charges”

I called UBA immediately and still went to their branch they got my frozen with the where the money was transferred to because it’s also a UBA

I’ve written the letter they asked me to write and they said they’ll get back to me within 5 working days


Now since there’s a valid recipient where the money was transferred to is there no way I can catch the culprit with help of the police? My iPhone 11promax of barely 6months gone with money

I had to call MTN too to block my SIM

Please is it possible to get the person tracked and arrested

Modes please move to front page Lemme know my next action thanks

NB: both my and fraudsters where he sent the money to has been frozen by UBA because we use same bank

Once your phone is stolen pls freeze your immediately. Within an hour the thief can empty your . Yours even took three hours.

Sorry for your loss Sir!


I promise you that within 9,545,398 working days, your bank will rectify it.

You see why I'll never scam, yahoo or whatever..........Na who never be victim once dey sing their praises....... Imagine someone withdrawing your hard earned 180k just like that.....I won't be surprised that the scammer self go dey squander the money for one beer parlor now . The funny thing na be say the way this kind money dey sweet no be here oh

Always use a sim lock.. We keep saying this

Nawao!

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Cash out

Resetting your ussd still requires some degree of authentication. Are you very sure that the thief didn't have access to your ?

Don't just lock your phone put a PIN code on your SIM aka SIM lock.