Ola Lawal, Olumide Kayode and Abass Adekunle were arrested following a botched attempt to compromise the bank’s system and steal depositors’ funds using an electronic device known as Keelog Key Grabber.
A statement by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren on Sunday said the trio’s arrest was made possible by an insider who revealed to the bank’s management that some fraudsters were planning to gain access to its network, using a device called Keelog Key Grabber.
“Investigations showed that, a staff of the bank, Owolabi Agboola was contacted by one of the suspected fraudsters, who proposed a business arrangement to him on how to hack into the system of the bank. Agboola subsequently informed management of the bank and he was instructed to play along with the fraudster”, Uwujaren said.
The arrangement involved using an electronic device known as keelog Key Grabber, which had the capacity to harvest passwords of some of the key operation staff of the bank.
The fraudsters’ plan was to have the insider plug the key grabber into the computer system of the Head of Operation of a particular branch to retrieve information technology configuration settings from the computer system and pave the way for them to move customers’ funds out of the bank.
The statement stated that Lawal was arrested while trying to hand over the Keelog Key Grabber to Agboola. His arrest led to the arrest of two other suspects: Olumide Kayode Maborukoje and Abass Ajibade.
Items recovered from them include: a keylogger, a laptop, a router, a modem, sim cards, USB keyhole log with a template of keylogger and a jotter containing some account numbers which they intended to use for the fraud.
The suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded, the EFCC spokesman added.
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