{"id":251350,"date":"2023-02-28T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T08:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/south-africa-human-settlements-warns-of-fake-linkedin-accounts?lang=en"},"modified":"2023-02-28T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T08:53:36","slug":"south-africa-human-settlements-warns-of-fake-linkedin-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africa-human-settlements-warns-of-fake-linkedin-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Human Settlements Warns of Fake Linkedin Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/34d7444e1198204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/34d7444e1198204\" alt=\"Department of Human Settlements: Republic of South Africa\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/34d7444e1198204\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=242219&amp;press_source=Department of Human Settlements: Republic of South Africa\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Human Settlements notes with great concern a fake LinkedIn&nbsp;account purporting to be that of Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi, used by scammers to&nbsp;take money from unsuspecting individuals promising them funding opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The fake account recently scammed a member of the public under a fake campaign&nbsp;titled &#8220;European Business Fund&#8221; requesting a fee of R8000 for registration and a&nbsp;further R60000 after submitting a business plan.<\/p>\n<p>We wish to place it on record that Minister Kubayi has only one official LinkedIn&nbsp;account, accessible here,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mmamoloko-kubayib62927203\/\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mmamoloko-kubayib62927203\/(link is external)<\/a>&nbsp;. As such, other accounts should be treated with suspicion, and members&nbsp;of the public are further encouraged to refrain from engaging with suspicious accounts&nbsp;and report or block them. Some of these fake social accounts often spread scams,&nbsp;promote phony products and even share lies and misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Another scam that often affects the department is the Request For Quotations (RFQs).&nbsp;Therefore, when the public comes across these suspicious activities, they must not&nbsp;fall into the trap of losing their financial resources and must also report the accounts or alert the department.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Department of Human Settlements: Republic of South Africa.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The Department of Human Settlements notes with great concern a fake LinkedIn&nbsp;account purporting to be that of Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi, used by scammers to&nbsp;take money from unsuspecting individuals promising them funding opportunities. The fake account recently scammed a member of the public under a fake campaign&nbsp;titled &#8220;European Business Fund&#8221; requesting a fee of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251351,"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":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-251350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/south-africa-human-settlements-warns-of-fake-linkedin-accounts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251350","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=251350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}