Last month, Federal Government instructed all Nigerians who are using SIM cards to link all their SIM cards to National Identity Number (NIN). When the announcement was made, the Federal Government also gave Nigerians 2 weeks to make sure that their SIM cards are linked to the NIN.

But due to the reactions of Nigerians who said that the time which the Federal Government gave them is too small to do the registration, the Federal Government added more days to the registration deadline, and made it known that anybody that failed to make the registration, he/she SIM cards will be blocked by National Identity Management Commission, (NIMC).

But about some days ago, the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), made announcement that it has created a new application for the NIN registration. The reason why the application was created is to reduce the stress that people in the country are passing through before they can register their SIM cards at NIMC office.

But now, some fraudsters in the country are now using the opportunity of the new application to dupe people online, by creating their own application that look like the NIN registration application that was created NIMC. This made National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), to take to its page on a micro-blogging platform, Twitter, to alert and warn Nigerians against the new application from the fraudsters.

If you check the photo below, you will see the the real NIN application and the fake one that was created by some fraudsters in the country.

Please let's be careful so as not to fall victim.