If you have a BVN in Nigeria [Important!] » Voice of Nigeria
If you have a BVN in Nigeria, please read this information for your own benefit.
Most Nigerians do apply for loans and other relief funds due to the financial difficulties and challenges they go through. They sometimes go online to search for loans or apply for federal Government funds in which their BVN is required, many do not mind or verify the site before disclosing their BVN to this website.
However, as Digital Technology improves every day so as the knowledge in many fraudsters improves as they are now able to withdraw money from a person’s account through the use of personal information obtained from you.
These Fraudsters create websites or fake Government relief fund sites which they usually use for their fraudulent activities. The essence of doing this is for you to reveal your details and access your Bank account through your details.
Nowadays, most fraudsters do use their victims BVN to withdraw money from their accounts that’s why they do create fake and fraudulent websites or call you claiming to be from your bank to get access to that information.
There are ways of preventing your self from falling into the hands of these fraudsters,
1. Verify the website: Some websites are fake, it is ad iced that before filling in any of your details, take a look at the website if there are any mistakes or form of grammatical error because these fraudsters in a hurry to catch a victim when preparing the website they do type fast without cross-checking if there are any grammatical errors or not.
Another way is if the site has HTTPS or https/, go for https because they are often time legit.
2. Verify unknown calls: these fraudsters do make unknown calls with their victims claiming they are from their banks asking them they have an issue with their BVN so they should send the digits of their BVN. If you receive this type of message quickly rush to your bank if any call was made by them.
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