Fraudsters buy with ‘magic’ money

Fraudsters who defraud people by buying goods with ‘magic’ or ‘mystic money’ are on the prowl in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. The fraudsters sometimes pretend to be tricycle riders or taxi drivers.

Yesterday, some of them entered a rice shop on Aka- Etinan Road, Uyo and duped a sales girl with alleged ‘magic money’ and succeeded in going away with seven bags of rice without full payment.
The story surprised passers-by. Narrating her ordeal, the sales girl, Rose Etim, from Mbiet Ebe Obio Uyo, said two men came to the shop to purchase 10 bags of rice.
According to her, after telling them a bag of rice was N12,000, the fraudsters paid her N120,000 in N1,000 notes. Etim said she counted the money before putting it in her pocket but to her shock, the money turned to N100 notes. She said: “It all happened this morning (yesterday) around 11 am.
Two men came in here to buy rice from me.
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