The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates in the just-concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), to be wary of the guile and activities of fraudsters who are making false claims of errors in the scoring of candidates in the 2022 UTME.
This was made known in a statement made available to Journalists in Abuja by the Head Media JAMB, Fabian Benjamin,
The Board maintained that the UTME is a computer-based test that is scored electronically with no human mediation whatsoever.
It stated that “the unfounded rumours making the rounds are nothing but the products of the deceitful brains of the masterminds of these baseless imputations. Hence, the Board reiterates that there is no room for errors in its electronic scoring system nor does it plan to organise another UTME”
The board added that the clarification became necessary following reports of a purported rescheduling of the UTME from a social media section citing phantom errors in the computer scoring system and a purported apology from JAMB to the effect that another UTME would be organised.
The Board wishes to state that the report is false and mischievous and misleading and crafted out of the frustration and inability of these fraudsters to dupe unsuspecting candidates owing to the series of innovative strategies the Board had put in place to protect candidates.
Recall that the Board had envisaged some of the strategies of these nefarious individuals and had sounded a note of warning to the candidates and the general public to forestall the possibilities of falling victims to fraudsters
The Board, therefore, advises candidates to avail themselves of its user-friendly advisories on assessing their 2022 UTME results and other processes through periodic visits to www.jamb.gov.ng.
Dominica Nwabufo
