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How I Was Scammed Through Fake Alert!

I used to hear of scam through fake alert I have never experienced it before until three days ago when this young looking couple came to my wife’s shop to buy things. I usually go to pick my wife from shop when I close from my own business. On that fateful day around 8.pm her Gen went off as fuel got exhausted and so is the CCTV camera so their faces were not captured she was actually balancing her account and arranging to close for the day whey they came appearing all friendly and chatty and they picked some items everything amounted to 12k and they requested for Cash of 10k totaling 22k. They requested for account no and my wife called out her monie point account and the lady said she can’t find monie point and requested for another bank account and my wife called out her GTB account she called the account name and said it was successful and flash the screen to my wife’s face. My wife said they will have to wait for confirmation she logged in through her app and couldn’t see anything. Meanwhile the guy was coughing seriously and the lady started complaining that her baby is crying in the car and ask to drop her phone no. After some time
I asked my wife to let them go out of my good heart and concern for the baby in the car that it could be network problem that is causing the delay after getting their contact. We got home I asked my wife to check she said nothing is in her account my wife decided to Dial that number surprising her Truecaller app brought out her name as ‘Onye ohi Rice’ meaning Rice thief that was when it dawn on us that we have been scammed. Since that day we have tried plenty times to call and chat the num on Whatsapp but no response. This is the number 08105384984 registered as Ifeanyi Nwakaibeya. I have refunded my wife the money though but I’m really sad that such young people go about stealing from people. Nairalanders I know it’s a small change but I wish I can get this guy and lady and deal with them.