Over the weekend, a Twitter influencer, Omotara, who makes a living using her Twitter account, lost the account and it left her depressed and suicidal.
The person who hacked her account then went on Twitter to contact prospective buyers. One of the people he contacted to buy the account happens to be someone who knows Omotara, so he informed her that the hacker was trying to sell the account.
Well, Omotara, desperate to have her account back, asked the Twitter user to pose as a buyer and ask for the price of her Twitter account so she can buy it back.
She eventually transferred 135,000 Naira to the friend posing as a buyer and she got her account back.
Having returned to Twitter, she shared the shocking news that her account had been hacked by a fraudster who then sold the account for 135K.
She was able to trace the account the 135K was paid into. It belongs to a woman named Anu.
She went on Twitter to expose the Anu as a fraudster, not knowing that she was in for even more surprise.
After she exposed Anu, a very good friend who Tara visited in Kwara last week before she began having problems with her Twitter account reached out to her via DM. His name is Seth, known with the Twitter handle @Kingtanda. He is also a Twitter influencer who Tara reportedly trusts "100 percent".
Seth told Omotara that the Anu she's exposing is his friend and she was just an accessory used by the real scammer. He begged her to stop exposing Anu and promised that he will make Anu pay her back every kobo she spent to get her account back. He promised to pay her the 135K back if Anu cannot afford to but begged her to let the case rest because Anu is his friend.
"If you have any bit of respect left for me, please do this for me," Seth begged Omotara on behalf of Anu.
However, Omotara refused to let it go and said she was going to arrest Anu so that she will lead them to the person who stole the Twitter account and sold it.
Omotara later discovered that her trusted friend Seth was actually the one who hacked her account.
Omotara's best friend, Ewawunmi, has now narrated how it happened. She said Tara came to visit her in Ilorin on February 24 and stayed for a few days. During her stay, she tried to catch up with all her old friends, including Seth.
On the day they met with Seth (@Kingtanda), Omotara did a video with him in his car. He later asked for her phone so he can view the video. That was when he got access to her Twitter account details then pretended nothing happened.
Afterwards, he kept pressuring Omotara to know when she was leaving Ilorin because he wanted to set his plan in motion after she leaves.
She told him she was leaving last Friday, but she was eventually delayed, such that when Seth took over her account and sold it, she was still in Kwara state.
It was also discovered that Seth set Anu up also because she had no idea what her bank details were being used for. Seth simply lied to her that his bank account has "issues" and he was expecting money so he needed her account number. She gave him without suspecting anything until she came on Twitter and saw her name being dragged.
The whole incident has played out like a movie on Twitter and Twitter users have gone to Seth's timeline to call him out. Some warned people to be careful of so-called friends because they are the ones who can harm you the most. Others warned people to desist from giving out their account numbers to anyone to use for a transaction.
Read the tweets below to follow the drama.
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