The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) has alerted of fresh plots by fraudsters, to dupe
unsuspecting candidates, against the backdrop of candidates who sat for the
2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME) awaiting release of results.
The board disclosed this in its
weekly news bulletin, released by the Head of Media, Dr, Fabian Benjamin,
yesterday.
JAMB advised candidates to
“jealously guard their UTME registration numbers and profile codes to avoid
falling victim of this latest scam.”
Candidates, it added, “should
know that what these fraudsters do is to take advantage of their naivety and
subsequently obtain their registration numbers with which they print their
Examination Notification Slips which contain the candidates’ phone number and
other vital data.
“These fraudsters, then, use
this information to send messages 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.
“Their strategy is akin to that
of a police officer, who is unmindful of the fact that he is wearing his name
tag on his uniform and, when you address him by his name, he is surprised that
you know his name.
“The Board urges candidates to
see their registration numbers and profile codes as security data similar to
the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) pin number which admits them to make a
withdrawal from their accounts. 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-be-released 2019 UTME
results among other mouth-watering promises.
“This is fraudulent as they
lack the capacity to do any of such.
“Candidates are, therefore,
enjoined to disregard messages or calls from anybody claiming to have access to
the board’s classified information.
“The board wishes to state
emphatically that results of the 2019 UTME have not been released,” and 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.
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