The WhatsApp number of Umo Eno, governor of Akwa Ibom, has been hacked by fraudsters.
On Tuesday, some contact addresses of Eno received messages
from the governor’s WhatsApp number, requesting that a certain amount of money
be sent to an account and with a promise that it would be refunded later.
However, in a statement, Ekerete Udoh, the chief press
secretary (CPS) to Eno, said the WhatsApp phone number of the governor was
“cloned” by criminal elements to defraud unsuspecting persons.
Udoh said law enforcement agencies have been alerted over
the development.
“Our attention has
been drawn to carefully orchestrated fraudulent posts on some social media
platforms, where some criminal elements have cloned the WhatsApp number of His
Excellency, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, with an intent to defraud
unsuspecting members of the public,” the statement reads.
“We hereby warn that any message appearing to solicit funds
by these imposters should be totally discountenanced by the general public as
they do not emanate from the Governor.
“The law enforcement agents have been duly alerted and are
on the trail of the perpetrators of this ignoble act.”
In July, one of the phone numbers of Ademola Adeleke,
governor of Osun, was hacked.
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