The Akwa Ibom state Governor, Governor Umoh Eno, just got his whatsapp phone number hacked and used to defraud his contact list. The hacked have not been captured yet but it has been discovered that it was a cybercrime.
This report was made on Tuesday by the Chief Press Secretary of the Governor, she said that on Tuesday, some contact members of the Governor’s whatsapp list started receiving messages from the governor asking them to send him some money as he promised to pay back. She said the governor’s number was cloned to carry out such criminal act.
Although, the hackers have not been traced yet, the police are already investigating the matter.
“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.”
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