{"id":16209,"date":"2023-10-26T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T07:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16209"},"modified":"2023-10-26T08:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T08:02:32","slug":"sterling-bank-under-fire-for-alleged-involvement-in-fake-euros-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16209","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Bank Under Fire For Alleged Involvement In Fake Euros Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16212 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2540-300x171.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2540-300x171.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2540.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Sterling Bank<\/a> is facing a scandal involving counterfeit Euros after a customer accused them of paying him fake currency. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The customer, known as LegendaryPapi, took to social media to share his experience. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He stated that he deposited 5000 Euros into his domiciliary account at the Kaduna branch of <a href=\"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sterling Bank<\/a> on January 24, 2023. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, when he went to withdraw the money on May 30, 2023, he was informed that the bank did not have the full amount. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">LegendaryPapi then went to the main branch to withdraw the remaining 5000 Euros, but was given the money in 500 Euros denomination. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Unfortunately, his friend, who was supposed to help him exchange the Euros for Pounds, discovered that the money was counterfeit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16214 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2537-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2537-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2537-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2537-750x563.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2537.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">LegendaryPapi expressed his frustration, calling bankers &#8220;armed robbers without guns working in our banking system.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He pleaded for <a href=\"https:\/\/sterling.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sterling Bank<\/a> to rectify the situation and return his money. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the meantime, he urged other customers who have foreign currency deposited at Sterling Bank to withdraw their funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16215 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2536-216x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2536-216x300.jpeg 216w, https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_2536.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The story also includes the current exchange rates for Naira against the Euro, Dollar, and British Pound.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sterling Bank is facing a scandal involving counterfeit Euros after a customer accused them of paying him fake currency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7891,440,167],"class_list":["post-16209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fake-euros","tag-scandal","tag-sterling-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16216,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16209\/revisions\/16216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}