The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) announced the
arrest of a 20-year-old student for swindling candidates participating
in the upcoming 2014 May/June Senior School Certificate Examinations.
WAEC Director of Administration, Mr Stephen Taiwo said at a media briefing in Lagos that the suspect confessed to having designed a website where he claimed to supply solutions to examination questions.
The council got wind of the scam through one of its members of staff, who found a poster advertising the site during a field work. The poster indicated the amount to be paid by interested persons and the account number to pay the money into. Continue..
WAEC Director of Administration, Mr Stephen Taiwo said at a media briefing in Lagos that the suspect confessed to having designed a website where he claimed to supply solutions to examination questions.
The council got wind of the scam through one of its members of staff, who found a poster advertising the site during a field work. The poster indicated the amount to be paid by interested persons and the account number to pay the money into. Continue..
Therefore WAEC subscribed to the website in disguise. The normal procedure is the following: as soon as the money is paid by unsuspecting candidates, they stay around the examination venue.
“And as soon as the examination is about 30 minutes on, they quickly smuggle out the question paper. On getting the paper, they try to get solutions to the questions, most of which are incorrect, and then upload to the ‘Rogue Website’ for their subscribers, who might have smuggled in a handset.”
The council contacted the bank which the website designers advertised and, using a fake name, paid N4,000 into the named account, in a bid to arrest the perpetrators.
The suspect received the notification about the incoming money, and quickly went to the bank to withdraw them through an ATM.
The suspect was arrested in the bank and would be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for prosecution.
The suspect, who said he had just gained admission into the Osun State Polytechnic to study Computer Science, confessed that he was working in collaboration with an accomplice.
He said the candidates normally paid between N2,000 and N5,000 into the account for the solutions to the examination questions.
The suspect said that he normally sent part of the largesse to his accomplice, by converting them to recharge cards.
He said it was his first time of getting involved in the crime and pleaded that WAEC should temper justice with mercy.
Sources: Naij.com news, PM News
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