Nigeria, May 24 -- The Nigerian Army has raised the alarm over the activities of "fraudsters" operating fake social media accounts with the identities of senior military officers to deceive and defraud unsuspecting Nigerians.

In a disclaimer issued on Sunday, the army said the impersonators were operating fraudulent Facebook accounts bearing the name of the Deputy Chief of Standards and Evaluation (Army), Terungwa Utsaha, while using the photograph of the Chief of Policy and Plans (Army), Bamidele Alabi, to lend credibility to the scam.

The army attached screenshots of chats the fraudsters had with some Nigerians seeking to join the army. In one of the screenshots, the account operators instructed a job seeker-whose previous attempts to...