The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has alerted candidates and the general public to disregard misleading text messages circulating via a spoofed version of its 66019 shortcode.
In an official statement signed by JAMB Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the Board clarified that these fraudulent messages—which instruct candidates who have already completed their resit examination and received their results to reprint slips for another exam—did not originate from JAMB.
Key Clarifications from JAMB
- Resit Candidates Are Done: Candidates who have already sat for the rescheduled/resit UTME and received their results do not need to reprint any slip or sit for another examination.
- Upcoming Scheduled Exams: The only examinations JAMB is planning to conduct are:
- The foreign UTME held in nine countries across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and
- A special mop-up examination for candidates who experienced biometric verification failures or missed the main and resit exams (under the 2025 special waiver).
Candidates eligible for the mop-up examination will be officially notified once preparations are finalized. If you are preparing for the mop-up exam, keep practicing on the Mentra JAMB CBT app (available on Android and iOS).
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