A Lagos business woman who fell victim of fraudsters popularly called wash-wash, narrates her experience.
The era of the wash-wash scam is back.(New York Fed.org)
A widow, Adebisi Jinadu, who fell a victim of fraudsters and
in the process losing the sum of N1.2m, believes she was charmed by the
fraudsters who defrauded her of the huge sum in the Agboju area of
Lagos State, when she boarded a taxi cab on her way to the popular
Iduomta market to buy gold jewelries for sale in her new shop.
Narrating
her plight, the woman said that at the time she boarded the cab, there
were three other people were inside, but when they got to Mile 2,
another person joined them. On the way, the driver pretended as if the
vehicle had developed fault near Alafia bus stop.
She
recalled the driver begging the other passengers to alight from the
vehicle and give it a push, which the complied. It was in the process,
the woman continued, that the driver said he perceived something unusual
in the vehicle. The driver then asked the passengers who owned a carton
the boot of the vehicle containing dollar notes. The passenger who sat
in the front seat accepted being the owner, claiming the cartoned
contained more than $100,000.
Curiosity and greed must have overtaken her as she became interested in the discussion because, according to her:
"One
thing led to another, the driver talked to me about joining in doing
the business of sharing the money equally. I never knew how I agreed. It
was not ordinary. I was charmed. This is something I would never agree
to do in my life.
The man said he wanted
to go to somewhere in Lamgbasa area, after Ajah, where he had other
money. In a house at Lamgbasa, he went to the backyard and came back
with a bucket.
He put some paper inside
and later brought them out and we saw ten $100 bills. He said he needed
money to wash the remaining dollars. He said if they washed all the
money, it would amount to $10million. That was how I gave them the money
I wanted to use for my business.”
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