CITIZENS COMPASS– A Nigerian woman has lamented how she mistakenly transferred N80,000 to a GTBank account.
The woman who took to social media to narrate this said she has reached to the sender who said it was an answered prayer.
Not only this, she said the receiver had spent N200,000 out of the amount.
According to the sender, she made the transfer from her Union Bank account only to discover the error moments later. In a bid to recover her money, she immediately contacted GTBank and visited one of its branches to file a complaint.
Unfortunately, this did not yield results as the bank informed her that they could not place a hold on the recipient’s account without a court order.
The woman’s post reads,“Please help me. I’m losing my mind. I mistakenly sent 800,000 naira to a wrong account number (GTB BANK). I sent it from my Union Bank. I’ve been to GTB bank to make complaint and I was told that the account cannot be put on hold.”
Later, she revealed that GTBank had tried reaching out to the recipient after the transactio, sdly, the response was not what she hoped for.
“The bank has reached out to the recipient and she refused to send the money back. She has also started spending the money. Bank tried reasoning with her but she refused and hanged up. Saying she won’t return it. And I can’t get court order until Monday. Last time the bank checked, 200k has been spent,” she added.
Later, she revealed that GTBank had tried reaching out to the recipient after the transactio, sdly, the response was not what she hoped for.
“The bank has reached out to the recipient and she refused to send the money back. She has also started spending the money. Bank tried reasoning with her but she refused and hanged up. Saying she won’t return it. And I can’t get court order until Monday. Last time the bank checked, 200k has been spent,” she added.
The story quickly drew reactions online, with many expressing sympathy while others shared personal experiences and opinions on how such issues should be handled.
One user, @__GUZMAN101, commented:
“God don bless am be that but norms e suppose fit paste 600k back make una get agreement but that’s just me. Another man’s loss is another’s blessing. Unless you wan go arrest am collect your money, best option you have now is to beg and collect your money, you carry am go court and she say she don spend am na agreement when she go pay back una go get or jail… Choose!”
Another, @Orguy, pointed out the need for better digital safeguards by banks:
“Again I say, our banks need to adopt technology to tackle this problem. When you send money to someone, there should be a 30 minutes/1 hour window for the sender to reverse the transaction! All these court orders and blocking of accounts are usually long things!”
User @UdyAsuquo also sympathized, sharing:
“So sorry about this. Something similar happened to me in January and till now I have not gotten my money back. Thankfully mine was just 20k.”
Others were more critical of the recipient’s decision to spend the funds.
@POTFRNG said:
“The human heart is wicked sha, someone mistakenly sent money that’s not yours and you went ahead to spend it? When she is eventually arrested please don’t accept any plea bargain, if she does not provide the money she spent make sure she is not allowed to get bail.”
In a related development, a man who bought N36,000 worth of goods has mistakenly transferred N360,000 to a Palpay account but the receiver was kind enough to refund the money as soon as she was contacted.
A Palmpay user said she erroneously transferred N5,000 to a co-Palmpay user who was kind enough to refund the money.
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