Scammers impersonating our officials to sell fake auction vehicles – NDLEA warns Nigerians

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has alerted Nigerians to a fraudulent strategy successful which scammers are impersonating elder officials of the bureau to connection fake auction income of forfeited vehicles.

The informing was contained successful a connection issued on Friday by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.

According to the agency, the fraudsters person been utilizing the names of top NDLEA officials, peculiarly the Secretary to the Agency, Shadrach Haruna, to circulate fake letters and messages claiming to connection forfeited vehicles astatine discounted prices.

The NDLEA described the offers arsenic a scam aimed astatine defrauding unsuspecting members of the public.

It stressed that nary authoritative of the bureau is authorised to privately allocate oregon merchantability forfeited vehicles oregon immoderate different seized assets.

The bureau explained that each vehicles and assets forfeited arsenic proceeds of drug-related offences are disposed of lone done nationalist auction processes conducted by government-approved auctioneers.

It added that immoderate morganatic auction is publically advertised successful nationalist newspapers and done the agency’s authoritative connection channels successful enactment with ineligible and nationalist procurement guidelines.

The NDLEA urged members of the nationalist to disregard immoderate backstage letters, substance messages oregon societal media posts claiming to connection auctioned vehicles connected behalf of...