The City of Cape Town’s Corporate Services Directorate wants to warn residents and jobseekers of fraudsters and scammers that pry on unsuspecting and desperate people about fake opportunities with the City. The City now wants to warn the public not to fall victim to these scams and fraudulent activities.

There is a syndicate posing as City officials trying to scam people into paying them money in exchange for ‘jobs’ at the City of Cape Town.

The alleged scammers send SMSs to the unsuspecting people telling them to meet them at the Civic Centre and bring money with them to secure the job. The victims are then redirected to an internet café to create Gmail accounts, to which they will be sent ‘medical certificates’.

This is very a sad and serious crime targeting the jobless at a time when unemployment is high and people are desperate to provide for their families.  We understand that our residents are desperate for jobs, however, we appeal to them to be extra vigilant.

Residents should please note that the City would never ask community members to pay for job opportunities or internships, or any other opportunity at the City.

‘I urge new graduates and jobseekers to be extra vigilant while searching for job opportunities. The City would never ask for money from those applying for vacancies, internships, and temporary work opportunities. I want to encourage those who have applied for jobs to keep safe the reference number and the title of the job that they have applied for. Should someone phone or contact you, ask the caller for these specific details. If they cannot give you these details, then you should know that it is a bogus call,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Corporate Services, Alderman Theresa Uys.

The City’s Human Resources Department follows a recruitment process as outlined below:

• The City of Cape Town places adverts internally and/or externally depending on the nature of the vacancy. For external applicants, adverts are placed in appropriate newspapers, on the City’s website in the careers section, and other career pages such as LinkdIN.
• Internal adverts are circulated electronically through the SAP portal and the careers page. The adverts are also placed on designated notice boards at City facilities.
• Depending on the level of the position, applicants will be requested to submit their job applications online via the City’s SAP portal, or forward it to a relevant vacancies email address.
• Training and Development programme opportunities such as Work Integrated Learning (WIL), Skills development, the Infrastructure Skills Development Grant (ISDG), and the Graduate Internship Programmes (GIP), can be accessed by signing into https://jobjack.co.za. Interested individuals will be required to register on the site and will then have access to register for these programmes.

We appeal to residents to report fraudulent activities to the South African Police Services to help bring the perpetrator to book.

Source: City Of Cape Town