Verdict: The Facebook page claiming to be an Opay agent Fraudulent. Brief: Several Facebook pages using the name of Opay, a Nigerian Fintech organisation, claim that Opay is carrying out a Promo on its POS machine. Full Text: Multiple Facebook pages have been seen to have posted that Opay is giving out its
Verdict: The Facebook page claiming to be an Opay agent Fraudulent.
Brief: Several Facebook pages using the name of Opay, a Nigerian Fintech organisation, claim that Opay is carrying out a Promo on its POS machine.
Full Text:
Multiple Facebook pages have been seen to have posted that Opay is giving out its POS machine in what is said to be a promo. According to pages Opay customers service, OPAY POS services, Online marking advertising, Opay POS distributors customer and pos networking services.
The observation of the post reads, “PROMO! PROMO!! PROMO!!!
Apply for the Android or Traditional POS for as low as 20,000. Promo Material coming with the POS: Our POS terminal comes with a chair, table, banner, umbrella, ATM card, and 1-year free internet subscription, and also attached to the text from all the pages was a WhatsApp contact.
When researching this we found that all the pages have gathered thousands of likes and comments here, here, here, here, and here.
Opay is a fintech company in Nigeria dedicated to providing secure, easy-to-use & affordable financial services.
How authentic are these pages we investigated?
Screenshots of the Scam Facebook page
Verification
To ascertain the veracity of these Facebook page links and if they are in connection with or affiliated with Opay, we searched to find out what the Facebook page(s) looks like. We found out that the company’s Facebook account is verified with over 300k likes and 500k followers, the address of its headquarters attached to it, and links to its official email, website, and customer service contact. We saw that the account was created on 6th May 2019.
Furthermore, our researcher went on to engage one of the scam agents through a WhatsApp contact dropped on the page. Engagement from our researcher and the said person during the conversation claimed to be Mr. Johnson Kinsley and asked, our researcher who disguised to be a client to produce some information and make a commitment payment of N10,000 which was noticed to be suspicious through his chat of wanting to know if payment had been made.
Screenshot
Screenshot of Scam agent Conversation with our Researcher Conversations
However, when we carried out more searches it was found that the company has a verified Opay Business page on Facebook, and saw that the company is currently running a promo at the moment.
Screenshot from Opay Business Facebook page
To validate the research on getting the truth we reached out to Opay through her verified X handle to ask if they have employed agents to help with the promo. Below is the response;
Screenshot of response from Opay X handle
Conclusion
It was discovered that the recent increase in the number of fabricated pages about OPAY is an attempt to defraud social media users. Therefore, the Facebook page that advertises that OPAY is registering is carrying promo on their POS is fake and fabricated.
