The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged Nigerians to be wary of a false Davido’s airtime and data giveaway advert on the social media.
NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde said this, in a statement, on Tuesday, in Abuja.
Adinde said that a group of scammers had rolled out an advertorial titled ‘Davido Airtime and Data Giveaway.’
He said the advert, which is now viral online, claimed that Davido was giving out free N5,000 airtime and 10GB internet data of all networks to celebrate his birthday.
Adinde’s statement read thus, “The Nigerian-American music star, songwriter and producer recently announced he would donate N250 million to various orphanage homes across Nigeria.
“In the advertorial, the general public was urged to hurry and get the gift by clicking on the links that supposedly redirect them to network sites, where they would be credited with airtime and data. This is a scam.
“The NCC wishes to advise our teeming telecom consumers to have nothing to do with the advert or any similar bogus enticements.”
The NCC also said that the advert which are engineering rip-offs designed to get people’s Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network (MSISDN) and other information that fraudsters could use later to defraud unsuspecting telecom consumers and members of the public, should be disregarded.
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Adinde continued, “MSISDN is simply the full phone number of a cellphone, in addition to other protocol information.
“This number is unique and identifies subscribers/owners in a GSM or other mobile networks.
“Therefore, it suffices to state that any unscrupulous person or unethical hacker can use the number and attendant protocol to undermine the privacy of the real owners of the number through identity theft and other scams.”