*Urges candidates to keep registration number secret
By Joseph Erunke
AS candidates who sat for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, await the release of the results, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has alerted of fresh plots being deployed by fraudsters to dupe unsuspecting candidates.
To this end, the board, which said this in a weekly news bulletin, released to the media, Sunday, by its Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, has advised all 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…
