By Tola Gbadamosi

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A 34-year- old businessman, Adeola Oja, has been arrested for allegedly swindling his victim of fake bank alert in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

The Hope Metro gathered that the suspect went to a store to buy clothes with the sum of N160,000, while he did a fake transfer.

An eyewitness account said the suspect was seen entering the store to get some items as a regular customer there. And he claimed to have transferred the money into the account of the shop owner while he showed the sales boy the alert on his phone.

An authoritative police source said the sales boy was really excited, believing he  had sold goods worth N160, 000 for his boss who was not around.

The unsuspecting boy was said to have described the sales as a very good one for the day.

However,  the owner of the shop, Mr Chibuzor Obi, came back from  Enugu State three days later, only to realise that the cash was not in his account.

On getting to his bank, it was further  confirmed that it was a fake alert.

According to the police source, Obi contacted men of the Nigeria Police who did the tracking of the line and intercepted the suspect who is now cooling his feet at the police station.