The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has dismissed as fake a widely circulated result slip that claimed a candidate from Cross River State scored 394 in the 2026 UTME. The document, shared on X by user @Onsogbu, said Okon Winniefred Sampson posted scores of 96 in Use of English, 99 in Biology, 98 in Chemistry and 99 in Physics.
On Sunday, JAMB spokesperson Dr Fabian Benjamin said the purported result slip was entirely fake. He said the board’s results are strictly view-only and that the circulated document appeared on a fabricated result template, which by itself showed it was not authentic.
Benjamin said the slip also gave itself away with a registration number pattern that did not match JAMB’s system-generated format. He said the board’s numbers do not follow the pattern “20269” seen on the fake document and that other inconsistencies exposed it as fraudulent at a glance.
The viral post had presented the candidate as a young girl from Cross River State who had scored 394 out of 400, while another circulating version of the claim put the score at 396. JAMB said both versions were false and urged the public to rely only on official channels for accurate information.
The dispute matters because the 2026 UTME has already become a target for a result that looked convincing enough to spread fast, even though the board says no one can verify results through a shareable slip right now. For JAMB, the answer is straightforward: the document was fake, the score claims were false, and the public should disregard the post altogether.
