The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has uncovered a fresh fake SWIFT message scheme and warned Nigerians and the general public against falling victim to fraudsters. The spokesperson of the apex bank, Hakama Sidi Ali, issued the warning in a statement on Tuesday.
She clarified that CBN does not provide correspondent banking services for Nigeria n banks in foreign payments nor maintain accounts for private business entities. The apex bank stressed that the claim that alleged expected foreign inflows for onward credit into the accounts of private business entities are trapped in the CBN is not only spurious but deceitful.
'The SWIFT messages are always not traceable on the SWIFT platform, and the funds have not been received to enable their application to the beneficiary’s account.
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