News24 reports that the Gauteng Department of Education (DoE) has warned residents and schools that people purporting to be BMW human resources personnel have been offering donations to schools and job opportunities to parents of school pupils.  

According to the department, the scammers were exploiting schools to disseminate false advertisements.  Their modus operandi was to contact school principals and offer to donate IT equipment to schools.  The department said the scammers offered to fight unemployment by sending flyers advertising false jobs and asking principals to make copies, stamp them and hand them over to pupils so that they could give them to their parents.  "Applicants are told to pay money for a medical test, uniform and [to] be given preferential treatment in order to secure a job."  The department said the people concerned were not contracted by it and warned people against paying money to secure jobs.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sesona Ngqakamba at News24

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