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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has distanced itself from a fraudulent letter being circulated by unknown persons, titled “Certificate of Site Ownership” for clearance of “Mast Transmission Antenna” allegedly issued by the NCC.
The commission, which said it came across the information through its social listening and environmental surveillance, said the letter purported that the letter claimed that the commission had conducted an inspection on a certain site for “9-Mobile Telecommunications Company G.P.R.S“. The fraudsters also gave conditions that the unsuspecting recipient of the letter would meet to make the certificate valid and effective for use by “10th November, 2022”.
The commission said several variants of the fraudulent letter may have been sent to individuals and organisations, with the intent to defraud, using the name of the commission.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the design and format of the forged letterhead bears no similarity with those of the commission. The department quoted in the fraudulent letter is non-existent at the commission. The signatory to the letter is also not known to the commission,” a statement by the commission’s director of public affairs, Reuben Muoka said.
