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Unsuspecting job-seeking Nigerians are being defrauded by “scammers”, according to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC).

According to information made available by the EFCC, fraudulent individuals are taking advantage of the ongoing recruitment exercise of the anti-graft agency.

The EFCC said applicants have been instructed to pay “N49,000 as processing fee and N48, 000 for accommodation and transportation.”

“It has come to the knowledge of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that some unscrupulous members of the public have been defrauding unsuspecting Nigerians in the on-going recruitment exercise by the Commission,” the EFCC said in a statement.

“The modus operandi of the scammers is to request for applications from job-seeking Nigerians and later inform the applicants to pay N49, 000 (Forty Nine Thousand Naira Only) as processing fee.

“Thereafter, the ‘successful candidates’ were asked to pay another N48, 000 (Forty Eight Thousand Naira Only) into an account for accommodation and transportation.”

After the payment of a total of N97,000 by the applicants, the scammers then proceed to write a “poorly written appointment letter purportedly from a non-existent office of director-general, Ibrahim Lamorde.”

It reads:

This is to inform you that you have been offered a job into the nigeria E.F.C.C, all applicant that have applied 2016/2017 nigeria EFCC form are expected to come down to the head office at Abuja on 15/07/2016.

Applicants are to pay his/her prescribed fees which is N49,000.0. All applicants are to come down to the head office at Abuja on 15/07/2017 with teller slip for the payment. Congratulations.”

The EFCC empahsised that it “does not and will never ask for money from prospective candidates in the ongoing recruitment exercise.”