A Nigerian man identified as Atanda has sparked conversations online after sharing a story on Facebook about how his elderly father was allegedly defrauded by a POS operator he trusted.
According to Atanda, his father regularly used the services of a particular POS operator due to his old age and poor eyesight. Since he could not easily visit the bank, the POS operator often brought her machine to his home to help him withdraw cash using his ATM card.
The issue came to light when Atanda visited his father and checked his bank alerts. He noticed a withdrawal of ₦300,000, while his father insisted that he had only requested ₦30,000.
When confronted, the POS operator admitted to making the withdrawal but claimed it was a “system error.” She immediately refunded ₦270,000, leaving the ₦30,000 that was originally requested.
Suspicious of the explanation, Atanda reviewed more of his father’s transaction history and allegedly discovered a pattern of fraudulent withdrawals. According to him, the POS operator had been taking money over time, with the total amount reaching about ₦700,000.
When presented with the evidence, the POS operator reportedly could not deny the accusations. She later brought her parents and some community elders to plead with the elderly man.
Out of compassion, the old man reportedly asked his son to let the matter go. However, Atanda stated that he refused to forgive her, insisting that she should be held accountable for her actions.
The post reads:
“There is this POS girl my dad always withdraw money from.
My dad is old and cannot walk to the bank and papa has bury vision too, so he prefer asking the POS girl to bring the machine to the house and he use his ATM to withdraw.
So recently, my Dad called for the POS girl to withdraw 30k not knowing this girl withdraw 300k.
I visited my dad this weekend and had to play with his phone, then I saw the alert msg that he withdrew 300k and I ask him jokingly what he used 300k for.
He denied withdrawing 300k saying it was 30k.
He called the POS girl and she admitted and claim it was error, she refunded 270k back immediately.
This prompted me to check more of his banking transaction history and we noticed this girl has been doing this thing to my dad for long and the total money calculated she had fraudulently taken from my dad’s account, it was totalled to be 700k.
We called her again and ask her to show all transaction of which she couldn’t deny.
Her transaction evidence sold her out and she started pleading.
She brought her parents and some elderly people to beg my dad and my dad been an elderly man is asking me to let go.
Pis, I want to know if I can take this case up for my dad even if my dad is not willing to take it up.
I can not afford to forgive this girl.”
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