There was a time I made a transaction through my GTbank master card to order an item on Konga, the transaction failed. I called Konga, they told me the money is with GTBank that I should go to the bank. I went to the bank and I was told to fill a report form which I did. I did not get refund back. I went to the bank two times. It was ₦5960 but that was 2012.
There are many news that I have read online that people will voice out about how bank want to scam them. But if we can see many news like that, how many would have happened that these banks officials have stolen from people. It happens frequently. The one I read about 2 days ago but surfaced on the news 10 days ago shocked people. You can watch it here:
https://youtu.be/bMDO89sArdU?si=05hHenX9T1y-BLPlThe man noticed ₦55 million was lost from his account. He investigated and noticed that the money was stolen by bank officials. That pissed him off and wanted to terminate his fixed deposit of ₦500 million. He was told that the money has been withdrawn. He sued FirstBank. They stole his money.
I am surprised that someone can hold ₦500 million in fixed deposit but he is not a young person but an elderly man which we should expect something like that.
You can lose bitcoin also through scam or wallet hack, but they are very easy to avoid if you read about it. Naira that is depreciating in price.
I saw the news too, from what i read, the man stays overseas, which is why I blame him, if you stay oversea and you've been seeing over the years how naira has be depreciating since 1984 when it all started, why would you have the guts to deposit suck kind of amount in a depreciating economy, why not save it overseas where you stay, at least that's more of a safe harbor.
As for the Bank staffs, that has been their modus operandi, once they notice a particular account has been inactive for years, by inactive i mean there has not been withdrawals or deposit in an account, and the said account is holding a good amount of money, the staffs will start by testing the waters with minimal amount of withdrawal to see if anybody will come and make official complain, hence nobody comes in a given period of time, they will systematically syphon that account, and I think that's the unfortunately thing that happened to that man. Omo saving your asset in Bitcoin is the best oh, u no go wake up one morning hear say everything for your wallet don commot, except you you lose guard your account seedphrase and password to hackers or fraudulent people.