{"id":100891,"date":"2019-08-27T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=100891"},"modified":"2019-08-28T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T07:25:32","slug":"commissioner-warns-online-saps-job-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/08\/27\/commissioner-warns-online-saps-job-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner warns of online SAPS job scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The advertisement has been circulated on social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public are therefore warned not to fall prey to such malicious scams as there are no internships available currently nor has the province put out such an advertisement.<br \/>\nThe public is also urged to be vigilant and contact their nearest police stations for clarity to confirm the legitimacy of such adverts in future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100892\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100892\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/false-job-listing-advert-Copy-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/false-job-listing-advert-Copy-520x400.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2019\/08\/false-job-listing-advert-Copy-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image of the fake job listing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jobs in the South African Police Service are not for sale. Legitimate vacant posts are advertised through the media (print and electronic) as well as the SAPS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Provincial Commissioner of the SAPS in Mpumalanga, Lieutenant General Mondli Zuma, has warned the public of a bogus job listing advertisement which indicates that there are vacant positions for internship opportunities within the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":88354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Press Release","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[15662,10010,12898,20320,20322,20321,20323,6491,10333],"class_list":["post-100891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-job-scams","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-police-commissioner-warns-of-job-scam","tag-saps-internship-openings","tag-saps-job-scams","tag-saps-vacancies","tag-scams","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["job scams","local news","middelburg news","police commissioner warns of job scam","SAPS internship openings","SAPS job scams","SAPS vacancies","scams","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}