I strung a recruitment scammer along to see how they operate

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Inside a fake follower recruitment scam in South Africa

Scammers are robbing ordinary South Africans with the promise of easy work that pays well and wrecking the reputations of legitimate businesses and online creators along the way.

When a recruitment scammer recently contacted MyBroadband over WhatsApp, we played along to better understand how they con people out of their money.
 
I wonder what would happen if you tell them something like "I'll pay the R500 first, and if it works, I'll pay R6000". I'd imagine they'd fall for it, and pay you the R650 back, after which, you scam them and never give them R6k!
 
Not surprised to see it is linked to a Capitec account.

Every time I get a "Dear HR, I would like to change my bank details for next salary" it's always a capitec account I'm given when requesting proof of account.

Makes me wonder... why Capitec? Are they slack with KYC or something?
 
Not surprised to see it is linked to a Capitec account.

Every time I get a "Dear HR, I would like to change my bank details for next salary" it's always a capitec account I'm given when requesting proof of account.

Makes me wonder... why Capitec? Are they slack with KYC or something?
Capitec is not a real bank so they don’t have to be compliant with certain banking laws.

Criminals know this so they use that loophole.
 
Not surprised to see it is linked to a Capitec account.

Every time I get a "Dear HR, I would like to change my bank details for next salary" it's always a capitec account I'm given when requesting proof of account.

Makes me wonder... why Capitec? Are they slack with KYC or something?
It's because they were under siege.
 
Inside a fake follower recruitment scam in South Africa

Scammers are robbing ordinary South Africans with the promise of easy work that pays well and wrecking the reputations of legitimate businesses and online creators along the way.

When a recruitment scammer recently contacted MyBroadband over WhatsApp, we played along to better understand how they con people out of their money.
Now do the Uganda Illuminati
 
Same as the “let me pay you 100 bux for giving fake reviews on google for b&bs”
I also took the bait for lolz last week and got my 100 bux then ghosted them lol. They managed to get my backup telegram account banned but that’s it. Was worth it for a free coffee or two lol. What got me was the sheer number of idjits falling for the scam. That telegram group was very busy.
Of course I didn’t give them my real name but they got my account number for the deposit.
Was fun ghosting them after that and pinging the rest of their clientele to say they’re being scammed.
 
Same as the “let me pay you 100 bux for giving fake reviews on google for b&bs”
I also took the bait for lolz last week and got my 100 bux then ghosted them lol. They managed to get my backup telegram account banned but that’s it. Was worth it for a free coffee or two lol. What got me was the sheer number of idjits falling for the scam. That telegram group was very busy.
Of course I didn’t give them my real name but they got my account number for the deposit.
Was fun ghosting them after that and pinging the rest of their clientele to say they’re being scammed.
How did they manage to do that, have their bot farm all report your profile?
 
How did they manage to do that, have their bot farm all report your profile?
No, just one. The guy who first reached out to me on WhatsApp. Telegram alerted that one of my “contacts” had signed on and within minutes I was banned. Telegram supports scammers and scams.
 
What were the two YouTube channels?


And this is what the instructions looked like:

Fake follower recruitment scam instructions.jpg

Some of the other "tasks" were:




 
Wait, you have to PAY for jobs, then get more commission back again.

How are people this f%##ing dumb? Jesus.....
 
Makes me wonder... why Capitec? Are they slack with KYC or something?

The scammers most likely pay to borrow and use other peoples account (the poor generally) to hide their identities and bypass the fica requirements, and since capitec has the highest number of account holders (especially with R0 monthly fees) among all the banks then the likelihood of a capitec account being used is fairly high.
 
The scammers most likely pay to borrow and use other peoples account (the poor generally) to hide their identities and bypass the fica requirements, and since capitec has the highest number of account holders (especially with R0 monthly fees) among all the banks then the likelihood of a capitec account being used is fairly high.

And the fact that the instant EFTs are indeed instant, and quite cheap.
 
South Africans are idiots
 
Not surprised to see it is linked to a Capitec account.

Every time I get a "Dear HR, I would like to change my bank details for next salary" it's always a capitec account I'm given when requesting proof of account.

Makes me wonder... why Capitec? Are they slack with KYC or something?
There is a reason why we joke and say Capitec is a 'Spaza Bank'. As quoted below, criminals also bribe a township resident in opening an account for them. The person who opened the account can also at the end of the day say it was 'identity theft' if the account gets investigated etc.

The scammers most likely pay to borrow and use other peoples account (the poor generally) to hide their identities and bypass the fica requirements, and since capitec has the highest number of account holders (especially with R0 monthly fees) among all the banks then the likelihood of a capitec account being used is fairly high.
 
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