{"id":69270,"date":"2013-01-25T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69270"},"modified":"2013-01-25T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:47:36","slug":"telkom-scam-warning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/69270-telkom-scam-warning-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom scam warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> is warning the public of a hoax advertisement claiming that Telkom is looking to hire call centre agents.<\/p>\n<p>The bogus advertisement was sent through SMS, e-mail and social media channels such as What\u2019s App and BBM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to remind customers and the broader public to be extremely vigilant and wary in order to avoid becoming victims of fraudsters,\u201d said <a title=\"Thami Msubo\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/330894-Thami-Msubo\">Thami Msubo<\/a>, Chief of Human Resources at Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said that this is not an official advert and the company is not looking to hire call centre agents at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Telkom employment advertisements are posted on the official Telkom.co.za website,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould the public be suspicious about anything, they can call the Telkom fraud hotline on 0860 124 000 or their nearest police station to report their suspicions,\u201d said Msubo.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Telkom articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom slashes uncapped ADSL prices\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/69246-telkom-slashes-uncapped-adsl-prices.html\"><strong>Telkom slashes uncapped ADSL prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom uncaps its capped ADSL accounts\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/67888-telkom-uncap-their-capped-adsl-accounts.html\"><strong>Telkom uncaps its capped ADSL accounts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL prices and launch details\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/67892-telkom-20mbps-and-40mbps-vdsl-prices-and-launch-details.html\"><strong>Telkom 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL prices and launch details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom ADSL speed boost update\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/64372-telkom-adsl-speed-boost-update.html\"><strong>Telkom ADSL speed boost update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Telkom 40Mbps VDSL trial details\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/58763-telkom-40mbps-vdsl-trial-details.html\">Telkom 40Mbps VDSL trial details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom warns of a hoax advertisement claiming that Telkom is looking to hire call centre agents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,109],"class_list":["post-69270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69272,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270\/revisions\/69272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}