2 Nigerians, Filipina nabbed over alleged bank hacking

Some teachers lose P26K to P121K each due to alleged bank hacking

LUCENA CITY—Two Nigerians and their Filipina cohort were arrested Wednesday for allegedly hacking a bank account of an Indian national, the Police Regional Office (PRO) 4-A reported Thursday, August 11.

Brigadier General Antonio Yarra, PRO 4-A chief, identified the suspects in a report as Nigerians Samuel Nomso Esomchi, 42; Taye John Bamidele, 40; and their local accomplice, Gladys Francisco, 47.

Francisco was arrested first at around 2 p.m. after she tried to withdraw P400,000 remittance money for the account of the Indian businessman, who lives in Bacoor, Cavite, at a China Bank branch in San Pedro City, Laguna.

Without Francisco’s knowledge, the remittance had been red-flagged by the bank’s central office as “hacked and a possible fraud.”

The bank manager alerted the security guards and the local police, which led to the arrest of Francisco.

In the follow-up operation, the police arrested Esomchi in a gasoline station while Bamidele was collared inside a shopping mall.

The two were found with P1,400,000 cash suspected to have been withdrawn from hacked bank accounts.

The three suspects were detained and face criminal charges for swindling/estafa and violating the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

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