Police have arrested one Ayoola Olalekan, a suspected Subscriber Id Module (SIM) hacker, in Osun.
Olalekan, 27, spoke to reporters, saying he dropped out of secondary faculty, earlier than going into crime.
Why did you’re taking to hacking folks’s financial institution accounts?
At some extent I went to study an aluminum job however left it to begin this ‘wire-wire job’ which was paying me nicely.
Who taught you the job?
I used to be launched to the job in Mushin, Lagos. My grasp is now in Dubai.
Why had been you arrested with an armed theft gang?
There was a boy known as Samuel, I didn’t know that he robbed. He known as me sooner or later that there was a telephone, an iPhone 6X, and that I ought to hack the SIM card and switch the cash within the account of the proprietor. I went to fulfill him at Toll Gate Ibadan. I checked the telephone however couldn’t discover any contact and Financial institution Verification Quantity (BVN) of the sufferer. I logged into the iCloud account, I couldn’t discover any clue to hack the checking account till I logged into the e-mail tackle of the telephone proprietor the place I noticed the BVN of the proprietor. I inputted the BVN in my hacking software program and noticed the individual’s title, date of start and tackle. I registered the account and began transferring the cash from his financial institution accounts.
Why was it troublesome for police to trace you?
I don’t make errors. After I get an alert SIM that I must withdraw cash from, I open one other fictitious account utilizing the BVN of my earlier sufferer. Then I switch cash into the account for withdrawal. Anytime police need to arrest me they arrest the proprietor of the BVN of my earlier sufferer.
I’m going to pastors, Alfas to hope. I’m going to mosques and church buildings to hope for God’s mercy earlier than I begin hacking into my sufferer’s checking account and withdraw their cash.
