{"id":72135,"date":"2025-08-05T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72135"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:12:28","slug":"fud-warns-applicants-over-fake-admission-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/fud-warns-applicants-over-fake-admission-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"FUD Warns Applicants Over Fake Admission Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal University Dutse (FUD) has alerted the public to a fake admission website used by fraudsters to extort money from unsuspecting applicants.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by its Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Abdullahi Yahaya Bello, the university warned prospective students against falling for scams claiming to offer admission through unofficial platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Bello clarified that FUD does not engage third-party agents for admissions, adding that the process is strictly handled through the university\u2019s official website and the JAMB CAPS portal.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that some candidates have received fraudulent emails and SMS messages asking them to pay \u20a610,000 for admission via a fake site unlinked to the institution.<\/p>\n<p>The university said no admission list has been released and urged applicants to ignore any message not published on its website or JAMB portal.<\/p>\n<p>FUD further warned that those found dealing with fake agents will be disqualified, and noted that law enforcement authorities are already investigating the scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The Federal University Dutse (FUD) has alerted the public to a fake admission website used by fraudsters to extort money from unsuspecting applicants. In a statement signed by its Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Abdullahi Yahaya Bello, the university warned prospective students against falling for scams claiming to offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135","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=72135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72137,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72135\/revisions\/72137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}