{"id":64363,"date":"2025-04-16T15:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64363"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:27:49","slug":"jamb-warns-candidates-against-viral-scam-messages-on-2025-utme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/16\/jamb-warns-candidates-against-viral-scam-messages-on-2025-utme\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMB Warns Candidates Against Viral Scam Messages on 2025 UTME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has raised alarm over a wave of fraudulent messages targeting 2025 UTME candidates, warning the public to disregard them completely.<\/p>\n<p>JAMB\u2019s spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, described the messages as false, misleading and criminal.<\/p>\n<p>He said they were designed by fraudsters to trick candidates into contacting fake agents under the guise of correcting errors in their exam details.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers reportedly manipulated JAMB\u2019s official sort code, combining \u201855019\u2019 with the exam code \u20188863\u2019 to deceive unsuspecting candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese messages are not from JAMB,\u201d Benjamin said in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday. \u201cSecurity agencies have been alerted and are currently tracking the fraudsters behind this scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He urged candidates to remain alert and verify all information strictly through JAMB\u2019s official platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has raised alarm over a wave of fraudulent messages targeting 2025 UTME candidates, warning the public to disregard them completely. JAMB\u2019s spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, described the messages as false, misleading and criminal. He said they were designed by fraudsters to trick candidates into contacting fake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64365,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64363\/revisions\/64365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}