The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has described as fake, a trending report that scores of candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination are being reduced.
The board in a statement signed by its Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian Benjamin, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja, said the report was false.
The report had claimed that scores of candidates who sat for the UTME and were found wanting by the board were being reduced by 100 marks.
JAMB said that an investigation carried out discovered that the fake news emanated from a gang who coordinated from a town called Igarra in Edo state with affiliates in Lagos and other states.
The board described the act as fraudulent and meant to extort parents and candidates.
โA gang being coordinated from a town called Igarra in Edo State with affiliates in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Abia, Anambra and Plateau states are circulating fake notice of impending reduction of UTME scores.
โThis is with intent to extort and defraud parents and candidates.
โCandidates results would be received on their registered cell phones as soon as the ongoing scrutiny of the examination centres are completed and publicly announced.
โOnly the fraudulent candidates or parents stand being defrauded on this matter,โ the board said.
