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  • Updated: August 19, 2021

First Bank, Access Bank Apps Easiest To Hack, Says Yahaya

First Bank, Access Bank Apps Easiest To Hack, Says Yahaya

A cyber fraudster who identified himself as Zakarriyah Yahaya aka, ”His Excellency” during a parade has said  that First bank and Access bank are the easiest to hack their online apps.

The 46-year-old Yahaya who was paraded by the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) in a video-monitored by AllNews Nigeria stated how his gang easily gain access to customers' accounts and wipe it clean of their money after hacking into their SIM cards.

Yahaya said: “I was born and brought up in Jos. I was arrested last month in Mabushi here in Abuja. I used to reset any SIMs that receive bank alerts. I will reset it and steal all the money inside the bank account.

”I do reset it with victim’s bank account number through bank code from the first to the last number. Any bank that we get, we first use it to buy a recharge card, from there, they will send us the alert. From the alert, we will now get the account number”

When asked what bank his gang find easiest to attack, the notorious criminal named First Bank and Access Bank.

“They are easy to reset,” Yahaya told the bewildered audience.

Speaking on the issue, police spokesperson, Frank Mba, disclosed that the criminals acquire SIM packs in large numbers and re-activate old phone numbers.

He stated that the gang tries to explore bank account details from old phone numbers people are not using again.

Mba said, ”Yahaya Zakari controls multiple gangs of cyber crooks whose talk-in-trade is to go after SIM cards, phone numbers of innocent Nigerians, breaking into their privacy, steal their banks’ IDs, and steal monies from the accounts.

”They have two main modus Operandi. The first is to go and purchase or acquire MTN lines, the new starter kits in large numbers. When they get there, they tried to hack BVN".

Mba added that ”Experience has shown them that at this stage, some of our service providers are recycling old numbers. Persons who had used phones and probably for some reasons have traveled out of the country, or for any other reason chose not to use the number again, and those numbers are dormant and currently being recycled and being re-issued to persons as new numbers.

”They are very skillful and they have ways of knowing or decoding old numbers. So, when they put on their MTN starter packs, and they are given options to select numbers, they select old numbers, and at random, they tried to explore and see if they could get bank details from those old numbers.”

Meanwhile, a total of 39 suspects whose investigations have clearly shown their involvement in cases ranging from armed robbery, kidnapping, trafficking in weapons, car theft, cybercrime, among others were paraded.

Items recovered from the suspects, according to Mba include 13 AK47 rifles, two RPGs, 750 AK 47 live ammunitions, 11 AK 47 magazines, 30 live cartilages, 58 wraps of explosives suspected to be dynamics, one Turaya handset, 157 MTN new Sim cards, among other incriminating weapons.

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