‘My Facebook account has been hacked’, Faleke raises alarm

Rep. James Faleke, Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (APC-PCC) has warmed Nigerians to be wary of unscrupulous elements who hacked his official Facebook account for extortion.

Faleke, in a ‘disclaimer’ in Abuja on Thursday, urged Nigerians to be wary of the unscrupulous elements.

He disowned the perpetrators of the crime, who were asking unsuspecting Nigerians to pay the sum of N18, 000 to access empowerment funds from the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Campaign Organisation.

“I have been inundated with reports from several Nigerians about activities of some unscrupulous elements who hacked my official Facebook account, to extort money from unsuspecting Nigerians.

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“According to them, these individuals requested that the intending beneficiaries should pay the sum of N18,500 into a designated account.

“One of the individuals behind this fraud is also sending messages to unsuspecting victims using the name of a certain Dr Lukman Johnny with phone number 08147136835.”

He further claimed that the person is a staff of the federal ministry of agriculture in Abuja.

“It reads: ‘Dr Lukman Johnny on 08147136835 tell him I directed you, he is the director in charge of the empowerment fund in federal ministry of agriculture here in Abuja, he will guide you on what to do’.

“I, therefore, wish to put on record that I am not aware of any empowerment fund being allocated or distributed to any individual or group of persons by Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, or myself.

“At no given time did I initiate such a scheme and will not subscribe to any form of dubious activities of fraudsters.”

He urged Nigerians not to subscribe to the antics of those “criminals” while appealing to all and sundry to track and report the activities of the criminals to relevant security agencies. (NAN)