MTN Scam website: investigating http://www.independentoffer.com/

I would like to say Thank you to Anil for posting a comment on the post titled: MTN Scam site: investigating http://www.2009anniversary.com and informing us about a new MTN Scam website: http://www.independentoffer.com/.

Below is a screenshot:

 

heres the URL screenshot:

 

Its the same MTN scam website template being used at the many MTN scam notices we have provided you. I think this calls for MTN Online presence managers to come up with more ways of out-smarting the many scammers who are having their field day impersonating MTN online. How about a dynamic front page for a start.

Here are some information about http://www.independentoffer.com/

IP address: 64.15.133.193

 

Scam webhost: iWeb Technologies, Canada. We featured iWeb Technologies, Canada previously in the www.glowinner.net scam website post. Can someone please inform iWeb Technologies, Canada that they are contributing to the bad image Nigeria already has, by offering their services to crooks like independendoffer dot com?

and is there a department in the EFCC with enough IT skilled people, who can assist in bringing fraudsters to the book?

Registration info: the domain name was recently registered, just October 6^th, and the scammer is hoping in a one-year investment.

 

Lastly, I checked the website of  iWeb Technologies, Canada, and discovered they have a Nigerian office / representative in Nigeria – at least. This makes me say: NO WONDER.

Below is a screenshot of iWeb Technologies website. Note the circled portion at the upper right.

 

information sources:

• http://whois.domaintools.com/independentoffer.com
• http://whois.domaintools.com/64.15.133.193
• iWeb Technologies Ltd – profile on LinkedIn
• http://iweb.com/

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16 year old Nigerian Boy Invents Vehicle

Since last year, 16-year-old Sunday Nnebedum has been adding colour and glamour to the annual new yam festival celebration of his people in Ezihe Igboukwu, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. Last year, the little lad showcased a prototype house at the festival and this year he built a prototype car, which has now informed his decision to go into car manufacturing in future.

And seriously, Nnebedum is leaving no stone unturned in his bid to achieve this nuturing as he had exhibited the talent of creativity and awaits the brushing up of the talent with education and training.

The young Nnebedum who will enter JSS3 when the schools resume later this month is a student of Christ the King Secondary School, Igboukwu.

Indeed, his prototype automobile was a cynosure of all eyes at the 2009 National Iwa Ji Celebration held at National Yam House, Igboukwu on Saturday, August 29, 2009, as he drove it round the arena. The pseudo vehicle which he told Daily Sun is a Mercedes Benz is powered manually with bicycle-like chains though it has a steering, brake pedal and electrical components as in a real vehicle.

The young boy, who said he produced a beautiful prototype house at last year’s yam festival, narrated how the idea of building the automobile came to him and how he actualized it.

Building of the motor: According to him, they were taught in school the use of gear and chains and after the lesson, he had a sleepless night thinking of what to make out of that lecture. “When I came back from school after we were taught of the use of chain and gear, I took a good look at the bicycle in our house, and was imagining how the Oyibo (white) people made it.

“After a long look and study of the bicycle, especially how the chain propels it to move, I decided that I will build a motor (automobile) that will be propelled by chains or if you like call it a ‘bicycle motor’”. Having taken the decision, Sunday said he immediately started sketching what was going on in his head on a paper and after the drawing, he did a skeleton-sort of the object like the way baskets are made. “Then, I showed it to my parents and told them what I wanted to do.

They encouraged me and gave me some woods and tapauline and I moved into action to construct the motor. After the wood work, I took it to the welder who built the chain area for me after I had told him what I wanted and how he should do it. “After that was constructed, that includes the steering, dashboard and doors; I went back to the drawing board and drew the electrical part of it. That is how the wire will run, the positioning of the lights (headlamps, trafficators, brake lights, their switches on the dashboard and even the radio), the music you are listening to is from the motor.

“So, after wiring and placing the lights, I used aluminum paint to paint it and later I sprayed it and that is what you are seeing now; I hope it’s fine?”

Parents’ contributions: Sunday noted that his parents, Mr and Mrs Chukwuma Nnebedum were helpful in his production. “My parents were very pleased with me and they encouraged me to continue. They gave me the whole money I used in building this, that is over N19, 000.”

Previous work and unfulfilled promise: Last year’s yam festival, if you were here, I am the boy who built house (prototype). That last year, they promised to give me scholarship, but up till now, nobody gave me anything.

This motor, now I took it to the Igwe’s palace the day he held his new yam festival and he promised to give me N50, 000 and said that I should bring it today, August 29, 2009 for the world to see and for him to fulfill the promise, so I am here and waiting.

Ambition: The 16-year-old boy told Daily Sun that his ambition is to acquire good education and to be trained to be able to manufacture automobile.
“I want the government and well meaning people to come to my aid, so that I can get quality education and be well trained as an engineer to bring my vision of building a real car to reality”.

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888 – – – – – 888

Congratulations Nnebedum Sunday.

More grace to your elbows.

Of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board – and their endless websites.

If you have a brother, sister, or relative sitting for the above JAMB, or perhaps you relate to teenagers preparing for the JAMB exam, you would have information of, and can relate to the above title.

JAMB means Joint Admission and Matriculation Board and it the official examining board for the Universities Matriculation Exam held yearly for prospective undergraduate students in Nigeria. JAMB is a national body established by the Federal government and has been the sole body established with the responsibility for conducting the UME to select students for admission. When a student’s scores are good in the exam and he meets the cut off mark for his university choice, JAMB issues him an official University admission letter through his university of choice.

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Part-1

Let me give you a run-down, starting with jamb.org.ng:

 

 

The above is the main website of JAMB-exam registration, with URL as: http://www.jamb.org.ng/, and IP address as: 196.200.123.15, registered by the AFRINIC.

In the above picture, #1 links to http://www.jambonline.org/, with IP address: 196.200.123.58. As of this writing, the page displays a blank-white.

#2 links to http://www.jambites.org/, with IP address: 83.143.9.234. “Powered by AfriBank”, this is an official information taken from the site itself:

JAMBiTeS information service is all you need to check your examination centre, notification of results and provisional admission status for UME, MPCE and DE candidates.

Then check out this screenshot:

Please note the red-circled URL: http://www.jambng.com/ with screen-shot below:

http://www.jambng.com/ with IP address: 66.232.113.146 gives information about the Organization, its board members / management team etc. It also includes statitstical data for application, exam-performance and admission for both the UME(University Matriculation Examination) and PCE(Polytechnic / College Examination), etc.

In summary, http://www.jambng.com/ is about JAMB, as an organization, and http://www.jamb.org.ng/ is for registration of candidates for the JAMB examination. While you are registered for the JAMB-examination, while you prepare/after sitting for the examination and awaiting results, you are a JamBite, so please move on to: http://www.jambites.org/.

 

 

Part-2

I thought it was all over, then I discovered http://www.jambonline.org/. Before I got confused, I clicked on the FAQ link.

The above circled info is quite similar with what we have at jambites.org, isn’t it. So can we conclude that Jambites.org and ambonline.org are the same sites….for checking JAMB results?

But then, we have http://www.myjambexams.com/ with IP address: 78.109.162.117. The ‘NECO Examination Platform’ with URL http://www.mynecoexams.com/ is also hosted by the above server.

While these: http://www.mynecoexam.com/ and http://www.myjambexam.com/, both with IP address: 208.73.210.26 look parked, in addition to http://www.jambite.org/, another JAMB website I discovered is: http://www.myjambresult.com/ with IP: 72.3.222.98 for services that include result checking / printing, etc. Honestly, are you not JAMB bored already?

While the JAMB board and technical crew might be having a field day registering JAMB-related domain names everywhere by different registrars and hosting their applications around the world, I hope the multitude of information does not contribute to the high-failure rate of Jambites in Nigeria.

Please, can someone tell the JAMB board of directors, the JAMB team of Information Technology experts, etc., to please get real, wake up and consolidate all their numerous websites / applications under one roof / domain / team of contractors, so that potential JAMB candidates won’t end up totally confused as to the correct website/URL where they are supposed to get information, register for and check their results, etc. Talk about registering at some JAMB URL only for you to hear that you wrongly registered on the date of the examination.

And with so many websites that lead all over, is JAMB not inviting fraudsters who might begin printing re-charge cards of their own and directing victims to some extra-fraudulent JAMB registration website.

 

Now, the funny part:

http://www.waecnovdec.com is the WAEC registration website for the coming Nov/Dec-2009 season. And I’m thinking, how does/will WAEC’s technical crew differentiate WAEC registration web-sites on a yearly basis. Isn’t it better to have a single WAEC examination domain and then subdomains for as many exam sessions / applications and services as possible? for example: mayjune2009.waecnigeria.com, scratchcard.waecnigeria.org, results.waecnigeria.org, registration.waecnigeria.org, whathaveyou.waecnigeria.org.

Now, between http://www.waecnigeria.org/, http://www.waecdirect.org/, http://www.waeconline.org.ng/, are applicants not going to end up confused.

Even the Ghanians are much more thoughtful: http://www.ghanawaec.org/, http://ghana.waecdirect.org/, http://registration.ghanawaec.org/wassce/

 

And please are Africans in Yankee also taking WAEC? http://www.waec.us/, or maybe I’m totally mistaken.

 

 

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