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₦2.9 Billion Hacked From Flutterwave Accounts

₦2.9 Billion Hacked From Flutterwave Accounts

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The sum of ₦2,949,557,867 has been illegally transferred from the accounts of Nigerian owned African fintech unicorn, Flutterwave.


On February 19, 2023, Flutterwave’s legal counsel, Albert Onimole, reported the case to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.

Per Onimole’s letter, the hack on Flutterwave’s accounts occurred about 2 weeks ago from February 13. It was said that the money was initially transferred to 28 accounts in 63 transactions. While the incident was reported to the police on February 13, 2023, with the list of accounts that had received the money, the police could not freeze the funds.

According to Flutterwave, some commercial banks allowed the money to be moved to other accounts, widespreading the money trail.

To investigate accounts holding the stolen funds across various financial institutions in Nigeria, S.A. Adedesin, Legal Officer, State CID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, filed a suit in the Magistrate Court of Lagos (Yaba Magisterial District sitting at Yaba) to support Flutterwave’s claims.

The suit is between the Commissioner of Police and the following financial institutions:

  • Access Bank
  • Providus Bank
  • Union Bank
  • Keystone Bank
  • PalmPay
  • First City Monument Bank (FCMB)
  • Kuda Bank
  • Zenith Bank
  • First Bank of Nigeria
  • Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB)
  • United Bank for Africa (UBA)
  • Polaris Bank
  • Wema Bank
  • Union Bank
  • Sterling Bank
  • Ecobank
  • Paycom
  • Fidelity Bank
  • Eyowo
  • Stanbic IBTC Bank
  • Opay
  • VFD Microfinance Bank
  • Carbon
  • Moniepoint
  • Al-Hayat Microfinance Bank
  • PiggyVest
  • Nomba (previously Kudi)

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While there are no documents to confirm if the court has ruled in favour of Inspector Micheal’s motion, some people have confirmed that their accounts have been frozen in connection to the hack.

A Twitter user said, “I got a mail from my bank saying I’m a 4th beneficiary to this acclaimed fraud money. This was after over five days after a successful trade. My account is locked can’t access fund inside. Pls is this right? It’s unfair I have zero business with flutter wave or the hack.”

Per the motion filed by Adebesin, 107 accounts, including fifth beneficiaries of those accounts, are to be placed on lien/Post-No-Debit (PND).

With the stolen funds distributed across several accounts, which, according to tweets, may or may not have anything to do with the hack, it is not clear at this time who hacked Flutterwave.

Questions about how hackers got past Flutterwave’s security and what this means for the unicorn’s customers remain unanswered.

Funny enough, Flutterwave has denied the hack through a statement. it said, “we identified an unusual trend of transactions on some users’ profiles. Our team immediately launched a review (inline with our standard operating procedure), which revealed that some users who had not activated some of our recommended security settings might have been susceptible.”

The statement added that Flutterwave was able to address the issue before any harm was done to its users.

However, some Twitter users claim thier accounts were locked as a result of the hack on Flutterwave.

The company said, "We want to reassure you that Flutterwave
has not been hacked. As a financial institution, we monitor transactions through our transaction monitoring systems and 24 hour fraud desk and review any suspicious activity. We collaborate with other financial institutions and law enforcement agencies to keep our ecosystem safe and secure"

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Paying Money To Bloggers Or Site Owners For Backlinks Is A Crime

Paying Money To Bloggers Or Site Owners For Backlinks Is A Crime


Paying Money To Bloggers Or Site Owners For Backlinks Is A Crime

Most of us do not know that it's a big crime and a violation against Google webmaster (search console) guidelines to pay money in exchange for backlinks to your website. This can also reduce your site ranking on Google Search  results. 

 According to Google webmaster, any links intended to manipulate PageRank or a site's ranking in Google search results may be considered part of a link scheme and a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. This includes any behavior that manipulates links to your site or outgoing links from your site.

The following are examples of link schemes which can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results:

  • Buying or selling links that pass PageRank. This includes exchanging money for links, or posts that contain links; exchanging goods or services for links; or sending someone a “free” product in exchange for them writing about it and including a link
  • Excessive link exchanges ("Link to me and I'll link to you") or partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking
  • Large-scale article marketing or guest posting campaigns with keyword-rich anchor text links
  • Using automated programs or services to create links to your site
  • Requiring a link as part of a Terms of Service, contract, or similar arrangement without allowing a third-party content owner the choice of qualifying the outbound link, should they wish.

Additionally, creating links that weren’t editorially placed or vouched for by the site’s owner on a page, otherwise known as unnatural links, can be considered a violation of our guidelines. Here are a few common examples of unnatural links that may violate our guidelines:

  • Text advertisements that pass PageRank
  • Advertorials or native advertising where payment is received for articles that include links that pass PageRank
  • Links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases distributed on other sites. For example:
    There are many wedding rings on the market. If you want to have a wedding, you will have to pick the best ring. You will also need to buy flowers and a wedding dress.
  • Low-quality directory or bookmark site links
  • Keyword-rich, hidden or low-quality links embedded in widgets that are distributed across various sites, for example:
    Visitors to this page: 1,472
    car insurance
  • Widely distributed links in the footers or templates of various sites
  • Forum comments with optimized links in the post or signature.

Note that PPC (pay-per-click) advertising links that don’t pass PageRank to the buyer of the ad do not violate our guidelines. You can prevent PageRank from passing in several ways, such as:

  • Indicating the link is sponsored adding a qualifying attribute to the <a> tag
  • Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file

The best way to get other sites to create high-quality, relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant content that can naturally gain popularity in the Internet community. Creating good content pays off: Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and the more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content valuable to their readers and link to it.

Paying Money To Bloggers Or Site Owners For Backlinks Is A Crime


In addition, google webmaster is asking for users to report any website that is participating in this act. 

If you see a site that is participating in link schemes intended to manipulate PageRank, let us know. We'll use your information to improve our algorithmic detection of such links.

22-Year Old Guy Murders His Mom Over Love Affair With Her Sister

A multi year old man recognized as Agaezichi Ogbonna, has purportedly murdered his mom over a relationship with her sister at Akpaa Mbato people group, Obingwa committee territory of Abia State.

Sources say that Agaezichi, was having an adoration illicit relationship with his mom's sister, yet his mom, Blessing, cautioned against the relationship, depicting it as a forbidden in Igbo arrive.



However, on Saturday, the deceased reportedly met the two ‘love birds’ at home and warned them to desist from the love affairs, but Agaezichi pounced on his mother and beat her to death.

When they realized that the woman had died, the two ‘love birds’ fled, but Agaezichi was arrested by youths who handed him over to the soldiers stationed at the community.

“The boy was having a love affair with his mother’s sister. The love affair has been going on for a long time. But his mother kept warning him against it. Everybody in this village has been warning the boy against the love affair because it is a taboo in Igbo land. Any time his mother warns him to stop the love affair with her sister, Agaezichi will beat the woman.
“Yesterday, his mother saw him with the girl and warned about the consequences of their love affair and Agaezich rained blows on the woman. She fell to the ground and died. When they saw, she has died, they ran away but Agaezichi was arrested by some youths while his girlfriend escaped.”




A soldier who asked not to be mentioned said the suspect has been handed over to the Police.

Contacted, Police Area Commander, Aba, ACP Peter Opara, confirmed that the suspect is being detained by the Police.

Bloodshed As Referee Murders Football Player After Match

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A referee is facing murder allegations after football players professedly constrained him to kill an individual from the restricting group in southern Malawi, police said Friday.

The Referee was managing a football coordinate between two Local team, Billiat FC and Chilengo FC, in the town of Thyolo on Wednesday, when Chilengo FC players declined to acknowledge the official's choice to discredit an objective, locale police representative Benjamin Foster told dpa.

In the following fight, the ref fled to an adjacent house, which the players lit to smoke him out, as indicated by Foster.

At the point when the official came up short on the consuming building, the players constrained him to smack a Billiat FC player more than once with a stick, the representative said.

The player later passed on of his wounds in clinic, included Foster.

"The Ref turned himself over … He is Facing murder allegations," he said.