SON High Command Unmasks ₦8.5 Million Cyber Scam; Blacklists Fake Bank Account and Cloned Lines Impersonating DG Ifeanyi Okeke

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has issued an urgent public safety warning to manufacturing firms, contractors, and the general public, completely exposing a highly organized digital scam network that has been impersonating its Director-General and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwunonso Okeke, to extort millions from unsuspecting targets.

The official intervention manual was unzipped by the agency on Saturday, June 6, 2026, following a surge in field intelligence logs indicating that cyber-fraud syndicates have successfully scaled up their operations. According to administrative reports, the criminals have been executing a sophisticated social engineering script, creating fraudulent digital profiles and utilizing cloned communication lines to approach job seekers and corporate entities with bogus offers of employment opportunities, high-value procurement contracts, and priority industrial clearings.

The severity of the security breach reached a critical baseline after internal investigators intercepted a live extortion track where the syndicate demanded a staggering ₦8.5 million from an industrial stakeholder. The fraudsters claimed the multi-million naira fee was a mandatory, back-channel clearance payout required to facilitate the immediate sign-off of an official agency contract.

Moving swiftly to build a defensive shield around its corporate partners, SON took the aggressive and unusual step of publishing the exact operational data fields being utilized by the racketeers to disrupt their financial transit paths.

“The public is hereby strongly warned that the Director General/Chief Executive, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwunonso Okeke, does not solicit funds, request monetary transfers, award contracts, offer employment opportunities, or conduct auctions or official business through social media accounts,” the official agency declaration stated with absolute candor. “Our intelligence teams have successfully traced the details linked to this specific fraudulent activity to a WhatsApp number, 07046427254, and an Access Bank account bearing the name Musa Abubakar with account number 1955996824. The public is strictly advised not to engage with the holder of this telephone line or execute any payments into the stated account.”

The regulatory authority emphasized that its administrative manual remains entirely transparent and heavily insulated from arbitrary external manipulation. The agency reiterated that all authentic employment drives, procurement bids, and asset liquidations are strictly managed in absolute compliance with the Federal Government’s public procurement regulations and due process acts, which require formal gazetting and publication within national print media rather than private digital chats.

Concurrently, the SON high command confirmed that formal legal and forensic petitions have been dispatched to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigeria Police Force Cybercrime Unit to track, locate, and neutralize the individuals pulling the strings behind the Musa Abubakar account matrix.

As business operators navigate a highly digitalized corporate environment across the 2026 trade calendar, SON has urged maximum civic vigilance, advising its stakeholders to treat any unscheduled digital approach from high-ranking public officials with extreme skepticism. The body maintained that its information portals remain completely open, directing the public to route all institutional queries through its verified customer service lines, toll-free channels, and physical state coordination offices nationwide to permanently starve cyber-syndicates of their financial prey.