22 May 2024 – A scammer’s voice has been dubbed onto a Financial Times interview with Johann Rupert. South Africa’s richest person is not promoting a scheme offering a dubious $1,000 daily return.
15 May 2024 – The lazy social media clickbait reuses the same wording, in Afrikaans, teasing “shocking” news about local celebrities – politician Julius Malema, cricketer AB de Villiers, actor Pearl Thusi and more.
2 May 2024 – If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The South African store card company RCS is not using social media to offer loans of up to R400,000 to people blacklisted from other credit.
22 April 2024 – Any claim to “cure” HIV is false. A new social media scam targeting HIV-positive people in Zambia latches onto Crispr gene editing technology, used in an exciting experiment in the search for a possible cure – but not the actual cure.
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