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EXCLUSIVE: Dubious Website Positioned To Scam Nigerians Through UAE Visa Application

OLUWATOBI ODEYINKA
JULY 16, 2024
1 MINS READ

On Monday, the Ministry of Information, and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris announced that the United Arab Emirates has lifted its visa ban on Nigerians, after diplomatic agreements with the Nigerian government. Although there is no such announcement from UAE authorities.

Soon after the announcement, Minister of Communication and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, unveiled a website (https://documentverificationhub.ae) purportedly created to , and offering visa services to Nigerians. Initially, netizens raised concerned about the seemingly exorbitant fee of around N600,000 naira for visa application. However, an investigation by West Africa Weekly’s David Hundeyin has shown that the website is neither owned nor operated by UAE authorities.

Firstly, domain names of UAE government websites all end with the “.gov.ae” URL. But this website ends with “.ae” signalling that it is not an official UAE government website. Furthermore, unlike government-owned or operated websites, the identity of the registrar of this controversial website, according to @scamadviser, is hiding their identity by using a paid proxy.



Findings by Hundeyin show that the proxy owner of the website is one Jean Geoffrion, a Canadian who is the CTO at a Spanish IT company called Global Voice Group, which according to its website, specialises in “provision of RegTech and Govtech solutions…domestic revenue mobilisation and regulatory compliance.”



“This company also appears to only do business in Africa and in fact much of its management team is African. So in summary, we have a website with a hidden owner contracting an IT middleman who specialises in “raising sustainable revenue” through high-traffic regulatory activities (such as visa applications) to operate the website on their behalf,” Hundeyin noted.

It was also noted that the IP address of the website is hosted on an Amazon AWS server in Ireland, further proving that it is not connected in any way connected to the UAE government, which hosts all its official government websites on the Middle East (UAE) Amazon Web Services regional servers.


https://westafricaweekly.com/exclusive-dubious-website-positioned-to-scam-nigerians-through-uae-visa-application/

Hmmmmm

Allegations should be thoroughly investigated and addressed by relevant authorities.

Lamba Government

FG sef don turn scammers. This is absolutely ridiculous. Many Nigerians will fall for this.

Chai!!

If this is true 'shey e fe pawa ni"

Tinubu is establishing every avenue to milk Nigerians dry. We're in for a long ride.

So David is now a best journalist in Nigeria today.

Beremx:
FG sef don turn scammers. This is absolutely ridiculous. Many Nigerians will fall for this.
Chai!!

Don’t be in a hurry. Why not wait for the government of the United Arab Emirates to deny the information or better still, their Embassy in Nigeria. It seems some people are allergic to good news.
Why are you so uncomfortable with good things?

Beremx:
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EXCLUSIVE: Dubious Website Positioned To Scam Nigerians Through UAE Visa Application
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EXCLUSIVE: Dubious Website Positioned To Scam Nigerians Through UAE Visa Application

OLUWATOBI ODEYINKA
JULY 16, 2024
1 MINS READ

On Monday, the Ministry of Information, and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris announced that the United Arab Emirates has lifted its visa ban on Nigerians, after diplomatic agreements with the Nigerian government. Although there is no such announcement from UAE authorities.

Soon after the announcement, Minister of Communication and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, unveiled a website (https://documentverificationhub.ae) purportedly created to , and offering visa services to Nigerians. Initially, netizens raised concerned about the seemingly exorbitant fee of around N600,000 naira for visa application. However, an investigation by West Africa Weekly’s David Hundeyin has shown that the website is neither owned nor operated by UAE authorities.

Firstly, domain names of UAE government websites all end with the “.gov.ae” URL. But this website ends with “.ae” signalling that it is not an official UAE government website. Furthermore, unlike government-owned or operated websites, the identity of the registrar of this controversial website, according to @scamadviser, is hiding their identity by using a paid proxy.



Findings by Hundeyin show that the proxy owner of the website is one Jean Geoffrion, a Canadian who is the CTO at a Spanish IT company called Global Voice Group, which according to its website, specialises in “provision of RegTech and Govtech solutions…domestic revenue mobilisation and regulatory compliance.”



“This company also appears to only do business in Africa and in fact much of its management team is African. So in summary, we have a website with a hidden owner contracting an IT middleman who specialises in “raising sustainable revenue” through high-traffic regulatory activities (such as visa applications) to operate the website on their behalf,” Hundeyin noted.

It was also noted that the IP address of the website is hosted on an Amazon AWS server in Ireland, further proving that it is not connected in any way connected to the UAE government, which hosts all its official government websites on the Middle East (UAE) Amazon Web Services regional servers.


https://westafricaweekly.com/exclusive-dubious-website-positioned-to-scam-nigerians-through-uae-visa-application/

Why don't you post the dubious government website here. I see one that's ending DOT AE which is an official UAE government webpage and has nothing to do with Nigeria. Nigeria is Dot NG.

Parallel facts and the other ones (West Africa weekly, NNnews media) are all Obidient's propaganda blogs disguising as credible media outlets.

Na only jealous Obedients dey criticize FG, make dem face their own country wahala.

Beremx:
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EXCLUSIVE: Dubious Website Positioned To Scam Nigerians Through UAE Visa Application
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OLUWATOBI ODEYINKA
JULY 16, 2024
1 MINS READ

On Monday, the Ministry of Information, and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris announced that the United Arab Emirates has lifted its visa ban on Nigerians, after diplomatic agreements with the Nigerian government. Although there is no such announcement from UAE authorities.

Soon after the announcement, Minister of Communication and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, unveiled a website (https://documentverificationhub.ae) purportedly created to , and offering visa services to Nigerians. Initially, netizens raised concerned about the seemingly exorbitant fee of around N600,000 naira for visa application. However, an investigation by West Africa Weekly’s David Hundeyin has shown that the website is neither owned nor operated by UAE authorities.

Firstly, domain names of UAE government websites all end with the “.gov.ae” URL. But this website ends with “.ae” signalling that it is not an official UAE government website. Furthermore, unlike government-owned or operated websites, the identity of the registrar of this controversial website, according to @scamadviser, is hiding their identity by using a paid proxy.



Findings by Hundeyin show that the proxy owner of the website is one Jean Geoffrion, a Canadian who is the CTO at a Spanish IT company called Global Voice Group, which according to its website, specialises in “provision of RegTech and Govtech solutions…domestic revenue mobilisation and regulatory compliance.”



“This company also appears to only do business in Africa and in fact much of its management team is African. So in summary, we have a website with a hidden owner contracting an IT middleman who specialises in “raising sustainable revenue” through high-traffic regulatory activities (such as visa applications) to operate the website on their behalf,” Hundeyin noted.

It was also noted that the IP address of the website is hosted on an Amazon AWS server in Ireland, further proving that it is not connected in any way connected to the UAE government, which hosts all its official government websites on the Middle East (UAE) Amazon Web Services regional servers.


https://westafricaweekly.com/exclusive-dubious-website-positioned-to-scam-nigerians-through-uae-visa-application/

I thought you were educated.

AE is the UAE's official websites. Just like US uses GOV and Nigeria uses NG.

Beremx:
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EXCLUSIVE: Dubious Website Positioned To Scam Nigerians Through UAE Visa Application
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EXCLUSIVE: Dubious Website Positioned To Scam Nigerians Through UAE Visa Application

OLUWATOBI ODEYINKA
JULY 16, 2024
1 MINS READ

On Monday, the Ministry of Information, and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris announced that the United Arab Emirates has lifted its visa ban on Nigerians, after diplomatic agreements with the Nigerian government. Although there is no such announcement from UAE authorities.

Soon after the announcement, Minister of Communication and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, unveiled a website (https://documentverificationhub.ae) purportedly created to , and offering visa services to Nigerians. Initially, netizens raised concerned about the seemingly exorbitant fee of around N600,000 naira for visa application. However, an investigation by West Africa Weekly’s David Hundeyin has shown that the website is neither owned nor operated by UAE authorities.

Firstly, domain names of UAE government websites all end with the “.gov.ae” URL. But this website ends with “.ae” signalling that it is not an official UAE government website. Furthermore, unlike government-owned or operated websites, the identity of the registrar of this controversial website, according to @scamadviser, is hiding their identity by using a paid proxy.



Findings by Hundeyin show that the proxy owner of the website is one Jean Geoffrion, a Canadian who is the CTO at a Spanish IT company called Global Voice Group, which according to its website, specialises in “provision of RegTech and Govtech solutions…domestic revenue mobilisation and regulatory compliance.”



“This company also appears to only do business in Africa and in fact much of its management team is African. So in summary, we have a website with a hidden owner contracting an IT middleman who specialises in “raising sustainable revenue” through high-traffic regulatory activities (such as visa applications) to operate the website on their behalf,” Hundeyin noted.

It was also noted that the IP address of the website is hosted on an Amazon AWS server in Ireland, further proving that it is not connected in any way connected to the UAE government, which hosts all its official government websites on the Middle East (UAE) Amazon Web Services regional servers.


https://westafricaweekly.com/exclusive-dubious-website-positioned-to-scam-nigerians-through-uae-visa-application/

Is David Hudeyin a representative of the UAE in Nigeria?

raskymonojendor:
Why don't you post the dubious government website here. I see one that's ending DOT AE which is an official UAE government webpage and has nothing to do with Nigeria. Nigeria is Dot NG.

Parallel facts and the other ones (West Africa weekly, NNnews media) are all Obidient's propaganda blogs disguising as credible media outlets.

go to Twitter and fight David Hundeyin. No be me burst the lies and fraudulent website.

Paraman:
Is David Hudeyin a representative of the UAE in Nigeria?

go ask him on Twitter

Do you think domain extensions like @gov.ae once in use can be resold?

The UAE Government has its verified domain badge and it's only criminal elements that will upload a fraudulent platform to fleece people.

This APC Government is a disgrace..

Adblg0610:
Don’t be in a hurry. Why not wait for the government of the United Arab Emirates to deny the information or better still, their Embassy in Nigeria. It seems some people are allergic to good news.
Why are you so uncomfortable with good things?

Beremx:
EXCLUSIVE: Dubious Website Positioned To Scam Nigerians Through UAE Visa Application
News

OLUWATOBI ODEYINKA
JULY 16, 2024
1 MINS READ

Soon after the announcement, Minister of Communication and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, unveiled a website (https://documentverificationhub.ae) purportedly created to , and offering visa services to Nigerians. Initially, netizens raised concerned about the seemingly exorbitant fee of around N600,000 naira for visa application. However, an investigation by West Africa Weekly’s David Hundeyin has shown that the website is neither owned nor operated by UAE authorities.

Firstly, domain names of UAE government websites all end with the “.gov.ae” URL. But this website ends with “.ae” signalling that it is not an official UAE government website.

Beremx:
go to Twitter and fight David Hundeyin. No be me burst the lies and fraudulent website.

Beremx:
FG sef don turn scammers. This is absolutely ridiculous. Many Nigerians will fall for this.

Chai!!

That's why we call Obidients headless mobs.
Hu drying said it's a fake website because there is no gov before AE

But this is UAE official website below.

It has no gov before AE too.

Abeg, make you Obidients dey use una God given brain instead of waiting for one refugee in Ghana to be feeding you bullshit.

👇👇👇

https://u.ae/en#/

Dem catch una again .

UAE go soon talk say Dem no send una message.

Shame on APC and their supporter's

Paraman:
Is David Hudeyin a representative of the UAE in Nigeria?

lol David Hyundai don carry the mob trabaye again.

They don’t have brain to think on their own. So David is there to fill the void.

The website does not necessarily need to be a UAE owned .gov.ae before it can verify documents from Nigeria applicant. It could be one of the conditions UAE gave to Nigeria considering how Nigerians have penchant for falsifying document.

That does not necessarily mean the site is fake. In their terms and conditions, they mentioned the site responsibilities.

The website itself do not offer visa, it is just a document verification hub.

To explain this using USA for example:
—Normally you need to provide proof of bank statement and etc to the embassy.

—Before, the embassy at one point contact the bank to verify if the document is legit or not. I don’t think they do it anymore at least for F-1.

—So if the USA government or Nigeria government contract an agency to verify those document before you can appear for visa at the embassy, how is that a scam?

Goodvibes007:
That's why we call Obidients headless mobs.
Hu drying said it's a fake website because there is no gov before AE

But this is UAE official website below.

It has no gov before AE too.

Abeg, make you Obidients dey use una God given brain instead of waiting for one refugee in Ghana to be feeding you bullshit.

👇👇👇

https://u.ae/en#/

take your argument to him on Twitter. No one has debunked the allegations on his page. Do the needful please.

Who is scamming who now?

You are a disgrace and a certified failure.

Gov.ae is a legitimate domain extension used by the UAE Government.

You are pathetic...I swear down.

Each day you expose why Awolowos free education was a resounding failure and setback for the SW.

See morale you use jump to talk Nonsense.

.gov ae is a confirmed extension of sub-offices that offer different information in UAE..

Useless Agbado failures..

Na wa for una..haba!!

Goodvibes007:
That's why we call Obidients headless mobs.
Hu drying said it's a fake website because there is no gov before AE

But this is UAE official website below.

It has no gov before AE too.

Abeg, make you Obidients dey use una brain I stead of waiting for one refugee in Ghana to be feeding you bullshit.

https://u.ae/en#/

When you think Obidients can't go any lower.

David released his usual Lamba so that idiots can send him money in Ghana. Instead of the mugus to do their independent research, they ran along with the news.

A simple Google search shows that not all UAE official sites ends with .gov.ae. alot also ends with just ae. The government of UAE has sole right to that domain just like Nigeria government has the sole right to NG

It's David Hundeyin, I need another source

Beremx:
take your argument to him on Twitter. No one has debunked the allegations on his page. Do the needful please.

But you are the one here feeding us Nairalanders with nonsense. When you got called out for spreading fake news, you quickly shifted the blame to "go and talk to David hyundai on twitter". What if that person has no twitter account.

See brainless Agbado in reasoning .

That is why TINUBU employs people like you. COMMONSENSE is scarce for you people.

Nairaland.ae. as a domain can be bought and registered online. What can't be registered is

.gov ae

Keep disgracing your foolish selves thinking you are communicating or even making Sense.

Spits

opamoses1:
When you think Obidients can't go any lower.

David released his usual Lamba so that idiots can send him money in Ghana. Instead of the mugus to do their independent research, they ran along with the news.

A simple Google search shows that not all UAE official sites ends with .gov.ae. alot also ends with just ae. The government of UAE has sole right to that domain just like Nigeria government has the sole right to NG

opamoses1:
But you are the one here feeding us Nairalanders with nonsense. When you got called out for spreading fake news, you quickly shifted the blame to go and talk to him on twitter. What if that person has no twitter account.

David Hundeyin has a Twitter account. Are you new to planet earth? If you don't have a Twitter account, open one. It's absolutely free

Anyways, UAE hasn't said anything about lifting ban on Nigeria? I stand to be corrected though

Rantingpiglets:
See brainless Agbado in reasoning .

That is why TINUBU employs people like you. COMMONSENSE is scarce for you people.

Nairaland.ae as a domain can be bought and register online. What can't be registered is

.gov ae

Keep disgracing your foolish selves thinking you are communicating or even making Sense.

Spits

Visit the main website of the government of UAE below. Obidients are like the dullest tools in the shed. Where is the gov in it?

https://u.ae/en#/

David Hundeyin, the PUPPET MASTER at it again. He wants to pull some strings.

Zxcvbnmghtr:
David Hundeyin, the PUPPET MASTER. He wants to pull some strings.

Man must wack. 😂
As expected, the mob fell for this newly cooked lamba.

This is the UAE embassy retweeting what the minister said. Would they have retweeted a scam?

https://x.com/hmmohammedidris/status/1812874568198959250?s=46

Houseontherock1:
Who is scamming who now?

David is about to drop another "go fund me" and cry about why Obidients can't send him ordinary $5. So he needs to feed the sheeps in preparation to dropping his "go fund me".