Read below as sent to us through email nrom a reader:
The latest trick now coming from the GTBank is that they are opening GTB accounts for people unawares.
It happened to me, and I am not happy...
Take
my case for instance, I didn't fill any GTB form whether at office or
at home or anywhere, I have never dialled their *739# or whatever code
which they shared on hand-fans to people, I didn't even collect the
hand-fan immediately I noticed it belonged to GTB.
I have never been
to any of the GTB branches for anything for more than three years now,
not even to pay into another person's account, nor even to use their
ATM., yet GTBank went ahead and created an account for me, and sent the
account number to my phone, and requested that I supply my BVN to them.
I
got alerted in my sixth-sense, that some scammers have remembered my
phone number and wanted to scam me in the guise of GTB.. I laughed it
off.
But on a second thought, I started wondering if the account number was scam, or whether it was actually real.
I decided to transfer money into it using my bank's mobile app, so as to see the name that will come out on it.
Lo and behold, it was my name there on the account.. And it means that
GTB already has my name and some other information about me in their
database, even when I have practically nothing to do with them. That means, for real,, GTBank actually opened the account for me. But how did they get my name.?
I am really wondering how information about me got to them in the first place.
.
In fact, who are the people that breached their privacy policy and
shared information about me, including my phone number to GTB?? How many
other firms and groups and individuals (whether good or bad) had these
same people shared information about me to apart from GTB? My fellow Nairalanders, believe me, I feel so unsecured and electronically raped right now at this very moment.
As
it is now,, Whichever firm is it that sold (or shared, or gifted)
information about unsuspecting innocent citizens of this country to GTB
(and to any other unknown firms yet), had committed a grave atrocity by
going against the privacy of their clients/customers.
Funny enough,
it wasn't only me they opened such accounts for. They did it to so many
people, and a greater percentage of them had been ranting on their
social media handles and timelines. Other people kept mute and ignored
it altogether, thinking that it is nothing.
But to me, it is a big “Something”. I see something very huge and very very bad about it.
This
just means that, very soon all the other banks and Insurance Firms and
many other firms we know nothing about, both in Nigeria and beyond,
would also get information about unsuspecting citizens from whichever
sources that had decided not to protect the privacy of their trusted
customers and clients, and then open unsolicited accounts in their names
and forward the new account details to their phones, and start
expecting them to come and be using the new accounts just like that.
That is not just Fair.
Something needs to be done about this, and it must be done quickly. .....
....
Facebook commited a similar breach of privacy policy, and the penalty on Facebook for such an offence was really huge..
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