A 21-year-old boy, who specializes in robbing Point of Sale Operators (POS) escaped death by whiskers when he was caught in the act on Tuesday, in Enugu State.
The suspect who gave his name as Ikechukwu Okafor had approached a POS operator in the Edinburgh area of Enugu for transaction.
He reportedly requested to make a withdrawal of N25,000, but instead of punching in his ATM 4-digit pin, Okafor cancelled the transaction, searched for an old transaction of the same amount, clicked and printed out, asking to be paid.
Unfortunately for him, the smart POS operator observed that the time of transaction on the printout was more than three hours old, and she quickly raised the alarm and the suspect was apprehended.
Immediately, crowd gathered and descended on the suspect who merely pleaded for pardon.
However, he was saved by some good Samaritan who opted to take him to the nearest police station; but not before he received heavy beatings from the crowd that gatherered.
Meanwhile, two UBA ATM cards suspected to be fake were found on him just as he confessed to the crime.
He claimed that he was sent by his boss but couldn’t produce the person’s contact or any reasonable evidence to his claims.
