The video of the new 2000 and 5000 naira that appeared on social media is fake - CBN reports A video containing the 2000 and 5000 nair...
The video of the new 2000 and 5000 naira that appeared on social media is fake - CBN reports
A video containing the 2000 and 5000 naira notes has surfaced again on social media, although the first appearance of the currency was in the year 2020. But after the Central Bank of Nigeria - CBN, announced that it will change some of the country's currencies, this video started to be distributed.
The Central Bank of Nigeria - CBN in a 30-second video it published on May 31 denied the authenticity of this video. He then advised Nigerians that there is no truth in the issue of the new big money, and anyone caught with them will face trial.
In the video, a woman's voice was heard saying that a customer came to deposit the money in the bank and that it amounted to 17 million naira. Nigeria has paper money in eight levels and the most valuable is 1000 naira.
Despite the warning given by the CBN, the video of the fake currency continued to be distributed on social media sites.
Like this example on July 18, 2021.
The sharing of this video in 2021 prompted the fake news tracking site - Africa Check to report the story as fake on July 20, 2021 and found that the video was originally published by a website called Oriental Times. .
The anti-fake news unit of the BBC has investigated and found that the site is still operating despite the fact that the Oriental Times registration has expired and they are planning to sell it.
The video, which was found to be fake, has already spread on Twitter, Tiktok, WhatsApp and Facebook.
The BBC Disinformation fact-finding unit tracked down the now-viral video, which was first shared by @smartgabriel on Tiktok with 29,000 followers.
The video was posted on Tiktok on Monday, October 24, 2022. It was viewed 1.3 million times and shared 15,000 times with 29,000 likes and 2000 comments.