The Oyo State Police Command on Tuesday advised residents and other members of the public to always destroy their electronically generated receipts and invoices after transactions had been concluded....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
This, it said, is because some criminals are on the prowl and may use the receipts and invoices to commit crimes and implicate the original users of the receipts and invoices.
Adebola Hamzat, Oyo State Police Commissioner. Many people are in the habit of generating e-receipts from Automated Teller Machines after financial transactions and leaving them at the machine stands while some get receipts from Points of Sale (POS) stands and just throw them away.
Also, some people buy PIN numbers for their phones and after loading them, the paper is thrown away while some get payment invoices from eateries and petrol stations and dispose them anyhow.
However, the Oyo State Police Command, in a post on its X handle on Tuesday, disclosed that those it described as e-criminals are on the prowl, using these e-receipts and invoices to commit crimes which will implicate the original users of the receipts and invoices.
Apparently based on some cases it is currently handling in regards to the matter, the state police command urged residents and other citizens to always destroy the e-receipts as well as invoices after they have concluded transactions except if they are needed for future references.
The command wrote: “E-Crimes have gone a notch higher. It is advisable to destroy E-receipts and invoices after transactions especially if they are not needed for future references. Boys (Criminals) are not smiling…CONTINUE READING>>
