Social media users have continued to react to the alleged diversion of funds from the NGO account of popular activist and social critic, VeryDarkMan. The controversial figure, in an Instagram post on Monday, raised the alarm over the hacking of his NGO account, where N180 million was stolen.
According to him, the funds were stolen after hackers allegedly gained access to the NGO’s website. He disclosed that law enforcement agencies had tracked one of the suspects, leading to an arrest and an account with N20m in it out in Post No Debit (PND).
To address the situation, he stated that the NGO’s app had been temporarily shut down for maintenance to prevent further security breaches. The development has, however, continued to spark reactions on social media, particularly on X (formerly Twitter).
While some expressed skepticism over the claim of diversion, others argued that it is impossible for funds in a bank account to be affected by the hacking of an NGO’s website. An X user, @lil_maamiiii tweeted, “If it were someone else sharing this verydarkman’s story, by now he would have set his ring light, with his d|try sachet water and black singlet analyzing God knows what. Lmaooo.”
Another user, @KadiriOjonugwa wrote, “guess his just pranking us to hear Nigeria mouths, because he would have show prove of all the debit deducted from his acct.”
@repented_boy wrote, “Nigeria politicians will be proud of him for this lie.”
“I thought the money was in the bank? How does hacking the website affect the money in the bank? Someone please explain to me abeg coz this story get as e be,” @Tony_shredah opined.
Similarly, @IkoniOnah wrote, “Was the money domiciled in a website or a bank account? How does hacking a website (not the bank’s) result in moving 180 million naira illegally from a bank account?”
“I’m a programmer, and I can assure you that for this to be possible, the website or app would need to be linked to a payment gateway, and the funds would have to be in that gateway. Otherwise, a scammer cannot access the business bank account unless the bank has been compromised,” @DavidMiracleo explained.
