JAMB UNCOVERS NEW SCAM, ADVISES
CANDIDATES TO KEEP REGISTRATION NUMBERS SECRET.
The Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed the new way fraudsters
have employed to defraud UTME candidates. The Registrar of The Board Prof.
Ishaq Oloyede, who disclosed this in a weekly news bulletin which was released
yesterday by the organization’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin.
He advised
all candidates to “jealously guard their UTME registration numbers and profile
codes to avoid falling victim of this latest scam”.
According
to him, what these fraudsters do is to take advantage of their naivety and
subsequently obtain their registration numbers with which they print their
examination notifications slips, which contain the candidates’ phone number and
other vital data.
These
fraudsters then use the information to send a message to same candidates
disguising as officials of the Board or persons who have special information,
access and capacity to inflate the candidates’ scores among other things.
He added
that the fraudsters use the information deprived of the examination
notification slip printed, using the candidates registration number to open up
a line of communication with candidates to dangle the enticing offer of
awarding them higher scores in the yet-to-released 2019 UTME results among
other mouth-watering information.
The registrar
advised candidates to disregard message or calls from anybody claiming to have
access to the Board’s classified information.
The board
wished to state emphatically that the results of the 2019 UTME have not been
released, “the registrar added”
It also
urged the public, particularly parents and candidates, to be wary of these
dubious elements and disregard any overtures made by anybody touting their
power or influence to inflate any candidate’s score.
The board
will make it public when the results are ready. As such, the channel through
which candidates can view their results has been communicated to them.
In the meantime, security operatives have picked up some
of these nefarious characters and they are on the trail of others still at large,
“it further added
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