{"id":169553,"date":"2020-10-21T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/iec-warns-of-bogus-employment-advert\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:41:20","slug":"iec-warns-of-bogus-employment-advert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/iec-warns-of-bogus-employment-advert\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC warns of bogus employment advert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission of South Africa has warned the public of fraudsters using an online job advertisement in the name of the organisation to obtain personal information from unsuspecting job seekers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Commission warned that the advertisement circulating on WhatsApp and other social media platforms, claiming that an \u2018Election Committee\u2019 had announced 50 000 vacancies for young people, is not legitimate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message goes on to ask people to submit their personal information in order to complete the application process,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The email address and logo used in the message is not the Commission\u2019s address and logo. However, unsuspecting job seekers may easily mistake the advert as legitimate and fall for the scam.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission said it only advertises notices of jobs and vacancies on its official website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.org.za\">www.elections.org.za<\/a>. &#8211; <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electoral Commission of South Africa has warned the public of fraudsters using an online job advertisement in the name of the organisation to obtain personal information from unsuspecting job seekers. In a statement, the Commission warned that the advertisement circulating on WhatsApp and other social media platforms, claiming that an \u2018Election Committee\u2019 had announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-169553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}