Crazy recruitment scams trying to con South Africans by asking for fake reviews

surprised somebody doesn't try the classic scambaiting trick of faking the review, and putting a redirect link that tracks the IP,
wonder where they all based out of, probably Dubai or UAE, were not valuable enough like the USA to get indian call centres.
 
Have had a few of these over the last few months.

They invariably get strung along for a few messages before getting a Chicken Fscker response.

Latest one was from "PSG" and for Google Maps reviews....
 
Usually a random "Business contact" messaging "Hi" first, get these once a month on my ZA sims,not my other foreign sims
 
so we do get some Indian scammers,
@UB40 , who you been targeting these days?

not to say my own kind dont scam, they scam and you Saffers definitely heard of them,
remember those dead sea products that used to be everywhere in all the malls?

used to love messing around with them, they get to the sales part where they ask for money,
and I reply in Fluent Hebrew, I wouldn't buy off a Camel in Haifa.

one of them was so shocked I speak Hebrew, literally ran away out of fear.
 
With high unemployment, this type of scam has quickly been adopted by disparate groups and South Africa is very much in the sights of the international scam community from all sides.

Please spread the word, you may just save somebody from a lot of heartache and despair.

Here is one from Nigeria.

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Jet-Fighter7700 said:
so we do get some Indian scammers,
@UB40 , who you been targeting these days?

not to say my own kind dont scam, they scam and you Saffers definitely heard of them,
remember those dead sea products that used to be everywhere in all the malls?

used to love messing around with them, they get to the sales part where they ask for money,
and I reply in Fluent Hebrew, I wouldn't buy off a Camel in Haifa.

one of them was so shocked I speak Hebrew, literally ran away out of fear.
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Currently it's recovery scams targeting victims to crypto scams. An alert from ASIC Australia. There are more such groups.

Many scams have geo fingerprints. It does not imply everybody in the country is involved, rather points to the origins where not enough is done in time. The ability to recognize this allows us to predict and what to look out for when we dig deeper.

A romance scam from Nigeria is different to one from the Philippines, which is different to one from Russia.

A romance-investment scam from Nigeria is different to pig butchering originating from Asia.

We see a lot of spoofs on social media, where victims are led to fake websites. Goods are sold for peanuts in some fictitious sale. Payment is via credit card. These typically originate from China. Where you find one, you find hundreds.

Let's not forget our own South African tender scam which has two origins and the groups cross-pollinated. Not South Africa's proudest export, as it has hit Canada, the UK and Italy.

South Africa was also first off the base with targeting Asia with mask scams in 2020 with CovID. When folks were still trying to get their act together to prepare for scams, the victim reports started streaming in..

If you find a puppy scam, Cameroon. Look out for shipping containers, tractors, couriers, firearms, whiskey, forged passports/visas/drivers licences, drugs, magic mushrooms, weed, commodities etc - all non-existent of course. Add a bit of impersonation and blackmail. Nobody is spared. In South Africa they also latched onto generators and solar, more recently water tanks.

Ironically South Africa is currently the second largest base for the last group of scammers. Unsurprisingly South Africa's own .Co.Za namespace also annually sees the second highest abuse for advance fee fraud of the top level domains, right after .com, predominantly non-delivery fraud related scams.

South Africa's citizens are not only extremely vulnerable and targeted, it's resources are also grossly abused. South Africa has a massive problem, so don't feel bad about Israel.
 
Scampup said:
South Africa's citizens are not only extremely vulnerable and targeted, it's resources are also grossly abused. South Africa has a massive problem, so don't feel bad about Israel.
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here I was remembering the fun times I had k@king people out in fluent Hebrew for selling garbage cosmetics, at Eastgate
looks on their faces were priceless, was so much fun, especially when their mouths hit the floor that way.

but from the other hand, gives my people a bad name, selling trashy cosmetics for overinflated prices,
am wondering sometimes why governments dont clamp down harder on these obvious scams or is it a case of whack a mole.
 
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Got this yesterday as well....
 
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