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Faizel Patel – 03/11/2020
The Basic Education Department has urged South Africans to be aware of individuals who impersonate or pretend to be BMW HR personnel and exploit schools in order to disseminate false job advertisements.
It’s understood the scammers contact school principals and offer to donate IT equipment to the schools.
The scammers also offer to fight unemployment by sending flyers with false job opportunities to the school and request the principal to make copies, stamp them and hand over to the learners to give to their parents at home.
Applicants or job seekers are told to pay money for a medical test, uniform and be given preferential treatment in order to secure a job.
The Department’s Steve Mabona has urged the public, especially job seekers not to be misled by these unscrupulous people.
“I think because they know that when you talk about employment many people will respond positively. The scammers will then continue to request money from the potential employee which will then necessitate that any person seeking employment will one way or the other pay something and then they will disappear.”
Mabona says there is no indication about how many people that have been scammed by the fake job offer.
“The number of people is difficult to quantify now, but we know that it’s more than ten schools. You’ll understand that schools in those areas, Ga-Rankuwa, Soshanguve, Mabopane, you will have about one thousand learners.”
Meanwhile Mabona says the department is ready for the Matric exams which is set to begin on the 5th of November.
Listen to the interview with Steve Mabona
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