EFCC Advisory
It has become necessary to alert the general public to the activities of fraudsters who have been impersonating the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu and extorting money from members of the public under various guises.
It has become necessary to alert the general public to the activities of fraudsters who have been impersonating the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu and extorting money from members of the public under various guises.
A few weeks after
the Commission raised the alarm over the activities of a syndicate
which opened a facebook account in the name of the EFCC boss and began
soliciting for friendship from prominent individuals and all manner of
favours using the platform; another group has cloned the telephone
numbers of the acting chairman.
The latest group
has been making calls to close contacts of the anti-graft Czar and other
prominent personalities demanding for huge sums of money using various
pretexts.
Members of the
public are hereby warned to disregard any call supposedly from the EFCC
Chairman asking for payments to be made either to nominated proxies or
accounts as such calls do not emanate from Ibrahim Magu.
For the avoidance
of doubts, the EFCC Chairman, indeed all officials of the agency, do
not solicit for nor accept payments/gratification from persons or
organisations under any guise.
Member of the
public are enjoined to report anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of
the acting chairman or other officials of the EFCC at any of the
Commission’s offices in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kano, Gombe,
Ibadan and Maiduguri or the nearest police station.
Wilson UwujarenHead Media & Publicity Unit
April 6, 2016
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