The Lagos State Government has alerted the general public to an
email on a Facebook account fraudulently set up under the name of
“Babatunde Fashola” .
In a statement by Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, Mr.
Hakeem Bello, the email requested unsuspecting members of the public to pay
N2,700 to a Guaranty Trust Bank account as application form fee for employment.
The statement said the GT Bank account was opened in the name of
one Onyebe Earnest, who according to the state government, had been sending
bulk short messages (SMS) with the name “CSC Lagos” to advise the public on the
GTB account number into which the money should be paid.
It dissociated the state government from the message, warning
the general public to regard such SMS as “false and misleading”.
It further clarified that employment processes in the Civil
Service Commission would not require the payment of any fee, stressing that the
government had the responsibility to protect the interest of the citizens.
“The government will take every legitimate action to ensure that
those behind the scam are apprehended and brought to book,” the statement said.
Source: http://www.punchng.com/
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