UNIVERSITY ADMISSION SCAMMERS- BEWARE!

This is a warning to all students who wrote WAEC, NECO, GCE or its equivalence and are hopefully waiting for the school screening exercise to remain vigilant and steadfast
as some internet fraudsters are on the loose to feast on their prey. This warning goes to candidates who are admitted already as well as those who are awaiting admission. 

It has come to our notice that a lot of miscreants who parade themselves as admission officers, jamb official or school staff and offer to admit students or claims to know someone who can give offer an admission slot. They often come in form of having you call a number which definitely belongs to one of their cronies in the guise to offer you an admission slot.

 

Since this is the period of screening exercise, and where students are always desperate for admission, some disgruntled elements have hijacked this process to prey on the seemingly innocence of these students to extort money or any other assistance in place of a promised admission. 

You must be weary of this scammers as they can never help you get admission. They are there to waste your precious time and at the long run require some monetary transaction before you can be offered admission. These scammers often appear to very smart and can convincingly make one to douse any iota of doubts about their capability. Gradually, they make you grow confident and you began developing trust in them as they appear very professional in what they do.

To curtail their evil schemes, I have compiled a list of possible hints that you can use to easily be spotted of an online or admission scammer. 

1. Any person or organization that promises to help you upgrade your result is definitely a scammer. WAEC, JAMB, GCE, NECO and every other exam results are not upgradeable! Your result is in a very secure database of the examining body and can never be tampered with. What most of these scammers do is to edit your result using some editing softwares. This process will only change the grades on paper but when you go online to check same result, the same old result stirs directly in your face. This single act has caused a lot of student their admission and renders their result void. 

2. Beware of any person that tells you to call a number. You might receive some text or see some people on forums or blogs claiming that they can help you secure admission. You should disregard those messages and never attempt to call the numbers as they are definately online scammers. 

3. Some do claim to work in the school admission department, others claim to possess some admission slots which they are willing to give you for a certain token. This should raise a red flag as they are not even a member of the school to start with. 

NOTE: If you are unsure of any information emanating from your school, kindly check with the school's official website as any information which is deem for the general public would be communicated through their websites.       

Admission scammers are there to play on the gullibility of both guardians and students, so you must be watchful and observe this tell tale signs enumerated above before you add to the number of their defrauded victims. 

In general, any person that asks you to part away with some money as regards admission or otherwise is probably a scammer.

Once again I wish you all success in your academic pursuit. 

Please use the comment box to tell us some of the ways these scammers carry out their activities. Do you have an experience to share, kindly  let us know.