Reasons Nigerian bankers/banks should not be trusted

This true story was posted by Asuquo James on Facebook:  

My neighbour who sells foodstuff travelled for New Year. She instructed her relation who sells for her to pay in the money (about N130, 000) she made since Monday into her Diamond bank account...

She went to Diamond Bank warehouse branch, Apapa. While filling her teller, someone asked her if she was paying in and she said yes.

She later joined the long queue. After 30 seconds, a young man dressed in corporate suit, posing as a cashier, came to her and asked for people who are paying above N100, 000.

 About five people stepped out and followed him a few meters away. He collected their money and tellers, asked them to wait so that he could go and stamp their tellers and disappeared into thin air.

They waited for long, unaware that he had left the banking hall with over N650, 000.

 Tired of waiting, they went to the bank manager. The CCTV footage was screened and low and behold, the gentle man in suit was neither a cashier nor a worker in the bank.

The security guard at the bank said it was the third time it was happening in that branch. And yet the bank had not deemed it fitting to take proper security measures.

It may be hard to believe, but it continues to happen every day in our banking halls.

1.  The banker speaking with you may be a fraudster/thief

2.  Bankers connive with fraudsters/thieves/ robbers to steal your money

3.  Most bank robberies have an insider’s connection

4.  Most of their CCTV(s) doesn’t work.

5.  A banker in your bank can easily electronically move your money without your knowledge

6.  Banker can also bankrupt your bank. Once your bank is down, it’s pretty difficult to recoup your money. A case study is Savannah bank of Nigeria. How many customers’ got their money back?

7.  When money disappears from your account, the bank refuses liabilities.

I did a story on Zenith bank, where an international trader discovered that a huge sum of money was moved from his account. I was with The Sun Newspaper back then. The money was cashed in Delta State and not even with ATM.

The businessman had never been to the state before. He said that he gave his cashier conditions on what to do before paying anybody from his account. His (owner) signature must be appended on the cheque. His customized stamp must be on the cheque. And if he’s not the person cashing money in person, his cashier must call him. He had his phone number. None of the rules were followed. When he tried to make a case at one of their branches at Ikeja, he was labeled a robber and the mobile policemen attached to the bank, gave him the beating of his life.

He was taken to Area F, Ikeja. He had internal bleeding and had to fly out of the country for further treatment.

When he returned, he sought media intervention. I was the reporter that went for that story. Needless to say, it was a bad case for the bank. I went to the Corporate Affairs Unit. The Head of the CAU was dropping names of all the top people at The Sun. I told him that if The Sun did not use the story, I will send it to websites and other journalists. The story didn’t hit the papers, but the bank settled the aggrieved customer. Justice!

8.   Whatever you keep in banks’ pigeon holes that gets missing in their premises, even a car parked, in their compound, is never their fault-it at your own risk.
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