Faith Gone Wrong: Bank Employee Steals Client’s Funds To Pay Tithing To AFM Church – iharare.com

Bank Employee Steals Clients Funds To Pay Tithing

One church members devotion and desire to pay tithe has landed him in a sea of trouble after he was arrested for stealing funds from a customers account.

The seemingly devoted bank employee, Kennedy Matimbura, who is employed by the Agribank has since been arrested for siphoning thousands of dollars belonging to a city company Riskev Holiday. Officials of the company were alarmed when they discovered that thousands of dollars had been transferred from their account without their knowledge and filed a police report.

Local publication H-Metro reports that following investigations, the police discovered that Matimbura had transferred $11 000 from Riskev Holidays account to an AFM church bank account. When he was questioned about the transaction, Matimbura revealed that he had transferred the money to the church because he needed to pay his tithing.

Following the revelations, the Riskev Holiday conducted an audit of their bank accounts and discovered more transactions that had occurred without their knowledge and consent. The company discovered that there were three transactions of $83 000, $15 000 and $640 that they have no knowledge of. The company has approached the bank seeking clarification on what happened. The police are also investigating the matter.

In a related case, the police have advised business organizations to regularly reconcile their bank statements to check and detect unauthorized payments due to an increase in cases of card cloning.

Criminal Investigation Department spokesperson Detective Assistant Inspector Portia Chinho told the publication.

Criminals are taking advantage of the uptake of plastic money by business organisations and members of the public to swindle money through card cloning, she said.

Card cloning involves the production of counterfeit bank debit cards by criminals after fraudulently acquiring bank debit/credit card information contained in the magnetic strip of the bank debit card.

Criminals are acquiring bank debit card information through gadgets known as skimmers. These skimmers are able to extract debit card information and the said devices are similar to point of sale machines.

Point of sale machines are a major catalyst and intelligence gathered has pointed out that there is collusion between these cyber criminals and cashiers at shops, liquor outlets and casinos, just to name a few.

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