UTME 2025: JAMB Raises Alarm over Fraudulent Messages
- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sent a crucial message to the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates
- JAMB raised an alarm about fraudulent messages targeted at 2025 UTME candidates by suspected criminals
- JAMB spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said the fraudsters falsely claimed to detect manipulations in the UTME candidates' details
Legit.ng journalist Adekunle Dada has over 8 years of experience covering basic and tertiary education in Nigeria and worldwide
FCT, Abuja - The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has alerted 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates about fraudulent messages.
JAMB said false, misleading, and criminal messages have been targeted at UTME candidates.
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The board's spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said suspected fraudsters disseminate the messages with the intent to defraud unsuspecting individuals.
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Benjamin said the perpetrators had exploited the numerical variant of UTME, 8863.
As reported by Daily Trust, Benjamin made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
He explained that they merged the numerical variant with the Board’s sort code, 55019, to create a deceptive sort code that mimics JAMB’s official messaging system.
“Through this fraudulent scheme, they have been sending misleading messages to candidates, falsely claiming to detect manipulations in their JAMB details and urging them to contact certain individuals who will ‘assist’ in resolving these fabricated issues.
“We want to emphasize that these messages are not from JAMB. Security agencies have been notified and are actively tracking the perpetrators behind this scam.”
Benjamin described the messages as a common tactic employed by fraudsters seeking to deceive and defraud UTME candidates.
JAMB advised UTME candidates to ignore such messages.
JAMB: 180 UTME candidates paid for exam questions
Earlier, JAMB had said no fewer than 180 UTME candidates paid for examination questions.
The JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, said the board would penalise the 180 who patronised rogue websites to cheat.
Oloyede said some Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates paid N30,000 for exam questions.
JAMB uncovers Kano Varsity applicants with fake results
Also, JAMB revealed that only 6 out of 148 A-Level results submitted to Bayero University Kano (BUK) for direct entry were genuine, 142 were fraudulent.
The board said it used the Nigeria Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data System (NIPEDS) to detect the use of forged certificates, including those from foreign institutions, submitted by direct entry applicants.
JAMB thereby noted that individuals involved in the forgery have been handed over to law enforcement agencies.
UTME 2025: JAMB releases mock results
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the foremost Nigerian agency, JAMB, released the results of the 2025 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB disclosed this in an official statement by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday morning, April 13, 2025.
According to JAMB, over 200,000 candidates registered for the Mock UTME conducted across Nigeria on Thursday, April 10.
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