The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has
disowned a recruitment advertisement purportedly by the corporation currently
trending in the social media.
The corporation in a statement by its Group General Manager,
Group Public Affairs, Ndu Ughamadu, in Abuja on Wednesday, described the advertisement
as phoney.
It advised unsuspecting members of the public to be wary of
the scam.
“The advertisement, set in NNPC’s corporate colour with its logo and a corporate picture, sets candidates’ entry requirements to include Master’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Higher National Diploma (HND) and National Diploma, is fake.
“The recruitment announcement or invitation to recruitment interview of this nature appearing intermittently in the social media should be discountenanced.’’
According to the statement, the NNPC is not carrying out any
recruitment exercise now. It added that;
“The National Oil Company dissociated itself from the fake e-mail address to which unsuspecting prospects were asked to direct their Curriculum Vitae in the placement advert.’’
The corporation further reminded job seekers to note the
antics of scammers who deploy, on social media platforms, such communication
strategies as text messages, vacancy announcements and forged letters inviting
them for non-existing job interviews.
These, it said, were tricks to extort money from them, and
cautioned that any applicant who entertained such invitations would have
himself or herself to blame.
It encouraged those who had already fallen victims to
volunteer information to the law enforcement agencies.
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