P.O.S WITHDRAWAL: how very few fraudulent p.o.s agent can use your atm card to withdraw without otp behind your back

Today, I let you know how fraudsters among POS agents can withdraw money from your bank account using your ATM without any OTP pins

Some POS Agent are fraudsters and some still sell your bank details to Fraudsters

Here are the methods they use.

When you get to a fraudsters POS agent. He will tell you there is no network on his POS.

He will ask you to let him use his phone to withdraw money for you using online wallet quickteller, Opay, WalletNg etc)

He will collect your card to input your card details into his wallet to add your card. check below what details of your card he will input.

Interface for WalletNg

Interface for Quickteller

wallet funding

Interface for Opay wallet funding

After input of your card details including your cvv, ATM card number, ATM expiry date, Your Date of Birth. He will try to save your card details.

After the transaction is successful, the money will enter his wallet and give your Cash and return your card

First transaction on a card the bank will send an OTP to your phone to authorize the payment.

When you become his loyal customer, He will be using the app to withdraw money from your account.

After several withdrawal on your card from the app. The app will recognized your card as an authorize card holder anytime he wants to withdraw money and it will not send OTP to your phone again.

Them he started withdraw small amount of money from your account like N100 for you to keep thinking it is from your bank,

That is many people always see debit alert of small money they can’t claim at bank on their account.

Imagine he do that for 20 customers per day that is N100*20=N2000 on his wallet per day.

Please, don’t allow any POS agent to withdraw your money using his phone. if there is no network on POS, wait till there is network or kindly go to bank to withdraw your money.

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LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT: speaks about re-opening of schools

The Lagos State Government says the decision to reopen schools in the state will be taken in two weeks.

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said this during a televised press briefing on Thursday.

“In two weeks time, we would make a decision on the reopening of schools,” the governor said.

He also gave permission to all manufacturing companies to operate between 7am and 6pm.

This is as the governor announced that as from June 19 mosques will reopen, while churches can reopen as from June 21.

Details later…

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COVID-19 Naija: Nigerian airport to be reopened in d next 18 days

IgbereTV reports that the Federal Government has announced that only five airports will be reopened when flight operations resume on Saturday, June 21.

A circular released by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), shows that the domestic airports that will be opened include Omagwa International Airport Port Harcourt, Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja, Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos, Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri, and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Kano. The circular also revealed that asides the five selected airports, all others are to remain closed for further assessment.

Also, it stated Nigeria’s airspace remains closed to international flights. As expected, after review and assessment, other airports are will be included.

Below is a full statement from the NCAA about flight restrictions.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR – GENERAL

ALL OPERATORS LETTER (DG 016/20)

Ref: NCAA /DG/AIR/11/16/121

Date: 1st June 2020

To: ALL DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN OPERATORS

FROM : NIGERIAN CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY

ATTN: ACCOUNTABLE MANAGER/ COUNTRY MANAGER

SUBJECT: UPDATE ON CLARIFICATION ON FLIGHT RESTRICTION DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

Our letter Ref. No :NCAA /DG/AIR/11/16/117 dated 6th May 2020 with respect to restriction of flights.

Following the announcement by President Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on the easing of and the start of second phase on the COVID-19 lockdown , we wish to inform the industry of the following:

1. The closure of Nigerian airports to domestic flights has been extended to 2300Z on the 20th June 2020. The gradual start of domestic flight operations will commence on 21st June 2020 with Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja, Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos, Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Kano, Omagwa International Airport, Port Harcourt and Sam Mbakwe Airport Owerri. Other airports will be gradually added to the network after a review and assessment.

2. All flights to any airport outside the above five listed airports above shall comply with the existing COVID- 19 protocols for approvals.

3. The closure of Nigerian airports to international flights will continue until a date of resumption is announced.

4. Emergency and essentials flights are exempted from this restriction and shall comply with the existing COVID-19 protocols for approvals.

Please be guided accordingly.

Signed By:

Captain Musa S. Nuhu

Director-General/CEO

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MACS: almost 1,000,000 MACS has been infected with virus globally

Hi , my article today is More than 600,000 Macs in the world have been infected with the virus, how to fix it ? , in fact this information has been circulating since last year but it would not hurt if I share this information again to your particular Mac users who don’t know it..

A Russian antivirus company , Dr . Web announced that as many as 550,000 in the world have been infected Mac Flashback trojan . Then an hour later Ivan Sorokin , a Malware Analyst Dr . Web ngetweet that as many as 600,000 Macs in the world have been infected with Flashback , and 274 of them are at Apple headquarters in Cuppertino .

Dr. Web also reported that 57 percent of the infected Mac Flashback is in U.S. and 20 percent are located in Canada .

what is Flashback Virus ?

Flashback has installed itself automatically into the Mac at the moment you visit a website that contains the virus . After Flashback installed itself into your Mac , then the Flashback will steal all information about accounts you have such as Google , eBay and PayPal.

Flashback also injects code into your Mac to attack the browser software that create unstable conditions for use . The person behind the virus to take advantage by stealing the username and password information that we have , but in a way that is irresponsible.

but it has been known that the latest variant of Flashback was only attacking users who still use the old version of the Java Runtime . Apple itself also has provided the latest update for the Java Runtime and fix the weaknesses that exist in the old version of the Java Runtime .

To find out if your Mac has been infected with Flashback on your mac , please follow these steps:

Go to Terminal of Mac and then tpye:

defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment

if appears the message like this:

The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info, LSEnvironment) does not exist , then you must type:

defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES

if the above steps have been done, and there is a message like this:

The domain/default pair of (/Users/joe/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist . congratulations, your Mac is safe from Flashback Virus.

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