2025 UTME Candidates Should Beware Of Scam Texts – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has come out to say that candidates should avoid the misleading and criminal messages targeting those who registered for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

The JAMB spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin recently revealed this via a press statement, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the messages are being disseminated by suspected fraudsters to defraud unsuspecting individuals, and the perpetrators mainly exploited the numerical variant of UTME, 8863, and merged it with the Board’s short code, 55019, to create a deceptive code that mimics JAMB’s official messaging system.

He added that no student should fall for the fraudsters who falsely claim to detect manipulations in their JAMB details and urge them to contact certain individuals who would assist in resolving these fabricated issues.

His words, “We want to emphasise that these messages are not from JAMB. Security agencies have been notified and are actively tracking the perpetrators behind this scam.

Candidates are strongly advised to ignore such messages. This is a common tactic employed by fraudsters who seek to exploit the examination period to deceive and defraud innocent candidates.”

WOW.