Nigeria, April 16 -- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has raised alarm over fraudulent messages targeting candidates who registered for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

In a statement issued by the board's spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB said the false messages are being circulated by suspected fraudsters using a deceptive sort code designed to resemble the board's official messaging system.

JAMB said the scammers combined a numerical variant of UTME, '8863' with JAMB's short code, '55019', to create a deceptive sender identity.

"Through this fraudulent scheme, they have been sending misleading messages to candidates, falsely claiming to detect manipulations in their JAMB details and ur...