Oluyemisi Adebayo, a Canada-based Nigerian, has narrated how the police attempted to extort N200,000 from her after she lost N900,000 to an online banking scam.

FIJ earlier reported how Adebayo lost N900,000 while trying to activate Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB)’s Mobile Application.

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The GTB e-fraud team told her she must have initiated a transaction that led to the disappearance of the money, though she insisted she was a victim of scam.

After notifying her that they could not help her, GTB e-fraud also told her to contact the police for further investigation on the case.

“I reached out to my friends and acquaintances in Nigeria to inquire which police station will do the job properly. After my inquiry, I spoke to a policeman who told me to write a petition to the Commissioner of Police in Ogun State,” she said.

Adebayo stated that she drafted the petition and that the commissioner stamped it and sent it to anti-fraud unit in Eleweran, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

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The station said to get involved in the investigation, they would need N200,000. She was told it was for getting an injunction from the court requesting access to the receiver’s account whose name reflected as Chidi Ugo Alex.

“I believe a court injunction was necessary but at what cost. They said the least they will collect is 150k after trying to negotiate, still too high, I backed off, ” she said.

Adebayo told FIJ that at that point, so many questions were running through her head. She said she felt disappointed.

“I felt helpless. After losing N900,000, to pay another N150,000 for an uncertain outcome? I don’t even know if this investigation would lead anywhere. And from my experience, this N150,000 I am asked to pay will not be the only money the anti-fraud squad will demand. They are only starting with N150,000,” she said.

Adebayo told FIJ she did not think the investigation would be positive and that she felt she was a target of exploitation.

She said she also contacted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to file a complaint, but she has not received a response yet.

FIJ contacted Eleweran Police Station in Abeokuta, but the line was switched off. A message sent to them had not been responded to at press time.