Men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested three suspected scammers, after a botched attempt to steal funds from Enterprise Bank. Ola Lawal, Olumide Kayode and Abass Adekunle were arrested following a failed effort to tamper with the bank’s system and steal depositors’ funds.

Investigations revealed that one of the suspects contacted a member of staff of the bank, proposing a business arrangement to him on how to hack into the system of the bank with an electronic device called Keelog Key Grabber. The staff reportedly informed the management of the bank and he was instructed to play along with the fraudsters.

The Keelog Key Grabber was meant to gather passwords of some of the key operational staff of the bank. It would be plugged into the computer of the Head of Operation of a particular branch to get the configuration settings from the computer and allow the fraudsters to move customers’ funds out of the bank.

Lawal was caught red-handed while trying to hand over the Keelog Key Grabber to the staff. Kayode and Adekunle were later arrested in connection with the crime. Items recovered from the suspected fraudsters include a keylogger, a laptop, a router, a modem, SIM cards, a jotter containing some account numbers that they intended to use for the fraud and other devices. According to the EFCC, the suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.