Category: Bank of Scams Blog

What do a shortened link service, WhatsApp, and google’s free blog service have in common? Scammers!!! From a fake NIN registration to a fake CBN grant, scammers have been working tirelessly to replicate anything in the news that has generated considerable interest into web pages that can be easily shared on the WhatsApp platform.

Our intelligence team caught wind of a new investment platform making the rounds called OmegaPro. They have been actively holding seminars in different parts of the country and claim to have a host of trading instruments (such as forex and cryptocurrency) in which investors can trade on and get a profit.

A number of our readers suggested for us to look into an investment platform called FxFarms, below are the findings of our intelligence team.

CyberSafe Foundation which is on a mission to facilitate pockets of changes that ensure a safer internet for everyone with digital access and resident in Nigeria has secured funding from the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme. In addition, CyberSafe Foundation has secured support from KnowBe4 Africa, CyberSecurity Experts Association of Nigeria (CSEAN), and other experts to ensure the program tagged ‘Safe Digital Community During COVID-19’ project is achieved.

Cybercriminals are sending emails pretending to be from Guaranty Trust Bank. These emails come as an alert for an impending debit due to stamp duty.