The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has lamented the continued fraudulent contraptions by those it described as social media criminals with a view to defraud members of the public, especially foreign stakeholders.
The Corporation said that the latest is the a fake Linkedin profile of its Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, Mr. Roland Ewubare, presenting him as the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, emphasizing that the main purpose of the fake news is to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.
In a terse statement today, August 3, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, said that the bogey was apparently contrived by unscrupulous conmen using the well-known professional networking platform to entrap would-be preys.
“For the avoidance of doubts, Mr. Roland Ewubare is the Chief Operating Officer, Upstream of the NNPC. The position ascribed to him in the phantom Linkedin profile does not exist and totally a product of the fraudulent imagination of the authors.”
The Corporation spokesman stressed that the fake Linkedin account is reminiscence of the barrage of bogus NNPC recruitment platforms which it repeatedly clarified.
He called on members of the public and stakeholders across board to be wary of such fraudulent contraptions designed to fleece people of their hard earned resources.
