Published 17th Sep, 2026
By Timileyin Akinmoyeje
Fraudulent websites designed to look like Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) traffic offence portals are being used to trick motorists into paying fake fines and surrendering financial information, FIJ can report.
As of press time, FIJ can confirm that one victim — Eva Ibiam, who is an actress — has lost N400,000 to one iteration of these phishing traffic portals.
Beware of scammers! I just got defrauded of almost 400k!! Do not click this link please!!! @FRSCNigeria pic.twitter.com/ksj1oV2lJz
Ibiam had on Wednesday, taken to her X page to cry out about her loss and warn the public about the link. She had got an SMS text informing her of a traffic offence. The actress had clicked the phishing link attached to the SMS with the hope of addressing the purported traffic offence.
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“You have a new road traffic offence recorded that requires handling.” It then directs the recipient to a link to review the offence. The website in Ibiam’s screenshot — https://www.fctevreg.cam/z — had a page titled “Road Traffic Offences” which asks users to enter their vehicle plate number and select “View Violation Notice(s)”.
At press time, hours after Ibiam’s post, this website has been taken down. FIJ, through domain lookup, found that the domain hosting the fraudulent page was only recently purchased on Wednesday with a private address traceable to Xiang Gang, Hong Kong.
FIJ can confirm that the actress is not the only one who received this phishing message from the perpetrators. Many other car owners would eventually post iterations of the same SMS message on X after Ibiam’s warning.
Deducing from the SMS messages, the links have offences that are made up to bait car users into entering their card details or financial information through a third party payment website that delivers to the perpetrators. Most of the iterations of the phishing links bear no semblance in structure and even visuals to the FRSC official page.
But FIJ found some other versions that may look legitimate — by virtue of URL structure and website design — to the unsuspecting road user. Some of the websites which fall into this category (spotted by FIJ at press time) include frsc-gov.sbs.ng and frsc.gov.eu.cc.ng.
First, these websites mimic the FRSC’s original URL by copying the agency name and adding a .gov and a .ng — as part of their domain name — to signal legitimacy. More importantly, both websites mimic elements of FRSC’s visual branding, layout and service presentation. This would make them appear official to motorists who do not independently check the web address.
For the less deceptive versions of these phishing websites, the URL names and domain details are a dead giveaway. For the more intelligently designed versions however, there are subtler pointers FIJ has identified motorists could use to spot the con.
The most obvious pointer is that the websites generate traffic offences for random numbers. FIJ tested this by inputting made up plate numbers — even ones that obviously do not conform to the number plate standard taxonomy — into the website’s checkers. Both of the test subjects returned traffic offences with fines.
Secondly, both versions of the con pages go further to offer motorists a discount on their traffic offences if they make payment immediately. In FIJ’s test iterations, the pages generated N10,000 fines for made up number plates and added a 50% discount on the condition of immediate payment.
Furthermore, the pages would proceed to request financial information through a third-party checkout named Payfast Now. The details the checkout page asked for when FIJ tested included card number and CVV, both of which are not unusual for transactions of this nature.
However, this third party checkout page proceeded to ask for the name of the cardholder and in one iteration, card pin. It is important to state here that FRSC’s actual payout partner is Remita. More importantly, legitimate payment platforms ask for minimal information which often would not include name and card pin.
The final giveaway is the domain name of the con websites. Both versions of the scam link FIJ tested use spoofed domains. Spoofing is a technique in which fraudsters create web addresses that closely resemble those of legitimate organisations to make fake websites appear genuine.
In this case, the official FRSC website uses the frsc.gov.ng domain, but the scam sites use variations such as frsc-gov.sbs and frscgov.eu.cc.ng. At a glance, the inclusion of “FRSC”, “gov” and “ng” can make the pages look credible to an unsuspecting motorist.
However, the structure of the addresses exposes the deception. frsc.gov.ng is a Nigerian government domain under the .gov.ng namespace, while frsc-gov.sbs and frscgov.eu.cc.ng are entirely different domains controlled outside that namespace.
The publicly available domain information attributed to the deceptive pages confirm the fraud. FIJ used WHOIS, the domain lookup tool, to pull the records of the websites.
One of the domains examined by FIJ, frsc-gov.sbs, was registered on September 16, according to its WHOIS record. It is safe to deduce that the domain was created and registered as recently as that for the sole purpose of tricking motorists in Nigeria.
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The domain was registered through NameSilo, LLC, while the registrant information was masked through PrivacyGuardian.org. The listed registrant is identified as “Privacy User #6de68762” with an address in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
The domain uses DNS servers associated with DNSOwl. The registration information does not, by itself, establish who operates the website. However, the domain is not an FRSC government domain.
The other version, frscgov.eu.cc.ng, uses the appearance of official terms such as “FRSC”, “gov” and “ng”. But eu.cc is not a Nigerian government namespace or an EU government domain. The .cc top-level domain is the country-code domain assigned to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and eu.cc is a separate second-level domain registered under that namespace.
WHOIS records show that eu.cc was originally registered on October 13, 1997. The domain was updated on August 31, 2026, and is set to expire on March 26, 2032. It is registered through SevenX LLC, an ICANN-accredited registrar with IANA ID 4570, and uses the nameservers a.rsp-dns.com and b.rsp-dns.com.
The registrant details are not publicly identified; the WHOIS record gives Camana Bay, Cayman Islands as the registrant location and directs contact through Rayname’s RDAP system.
The age of eu.cc, however, does not mean the FRSC scam link has existed since 1997. The WHOIS record concerns the parent eu.cc domain. The scammer is using a host name within that domain structure, and the available WHOIS information does not identify who created or controls the particular frscgov.eu.cc.ng address.
FRSC warned motorists on Wednesday against fraudulent SMS messages and one of the fake websites being used in the scheme. The agency released a statement to say that the messages falsely claim that recipients had been recorded for new road traffic offences.
The Corps identified frscgov.top/ng as one of the fraudulent websites and said it has no affiliation with FRSC. FRSC advised motorists to verify alleged traffic offences through its established official channels and warned them against clicking suspicious links or making payments through them.
FRSC’s published payment procedure provides for payment of prescribed traffic offence fines through recognised government payment channels. Its procedure says an offender who has been issued a Notice of Offence Sheet can pay the prescribed fine through commercial banks or electronically through Remita.
The procedure directs users paying through Remita to select the Federal Government agency option and identify FRSC among the relevant ministries, departments and agencies.
FRSC’s e-ticketing documentation also identifies online payment, bank payment and POS terminals at FRSC Sector and Unit Commands as payment options. The Corps’ procedure further states that after payment, the offender takes the payment evidence to the FRSC office where the booking was made.
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Published 17th Sep, 2026
By Timileyin Akinmoyeje
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