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Actress Ejine Okoroafor Recounts How A Nigerian Bank Issued Her Fake Euro Notes

Nollywood actress Ejine Okoroafor has recounted how a Nigerian bank issued her foreign currency that turned out to be problematic and landed her in a police station.

Okoroafor in a lengthy post on her Instagram on September 17th wrote that the Euro notes she got from the bank were fake and was flagged down by Parisien authorities.

“Thursday, the 16th of September, I was ashamed being a Nigerian. At a mall here in Paris, I went to purchase some items and I was told the Euro notes I had were fake. I bought the money from a well-known bank in Nigeria (PTA),” she wrote.

 

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“I took it to the bank, A cash machine seized the €2000 that was rightfully placed and rejected the last squeezed €500. With a receipt that the money is fake. Because I was advised to pay the money into an account and withdraw in smaller denominations that they hardly spend 500euro). I asked my friend, who lives here to help me with the transaction.”

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“So We took d surviving €500 to MoneyGram to confirm its authenticity and we almost got into trouble. Dey wanted to call the Police on us. We eventually had to visit the Police station for her to report. To avoid her account from getting blocked or being negatively affected by this situation.”

She however didn’t mention the bank but added that they admitted to giving her fake notes.

“Meanwhile I called the bank manager when the atm seized the money, to let him know what had happened. He said ‘I should have called him when they told me at the mall, I won’t have gone to the bank’. I should return the money. Apparently, he said they had been told to stop issuing that cash and I was never alerted.”

Ejine Okoroafor further advised Nigerians to avoid collecting high foreign currencies from Nigerian banks for now.

 

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