Community warned against recruitment scam

HIGHVELD – Isibonelo Colliery said a hoax employment advertisement is doing the rounds on various social media platforms and on posters.

The message purporting to be from the mine, and in some instances Anglo Coal, claims the mine is looking to recruit new employees in the Secunda area.

The mine is not on a recruitment drive as the advertisement claims.

“As and when we need to recruit people for our mine, we advertise these opportunities through the local media, as well as on-line at www.angloamerican.com.

“More importantly, we do not take money when people apply for jobs with us.

“We would therefore like to distance ourselves from individuals who take money from community members under false pretenses,” said a spokesman.

The company has already notified the South African Police Services about the scam and they are currently conducting investigations.

They have also sent notifications in English, Sotho and Zulu warning people about the alleged recruitment scam.

This warning reads:

• Beware of fraudulent job offers from people misrepresenting themselves as Anglo American.

• Beware of fraudulent websites, lotteries, advertisements or agencies posing as representatives of Anglo American.

• These are fraudulent and aim at extracting either money or personal information.

• Anglo American does not use social media as part of its recruitment process.

• Any genuine offer of employment from Anglo American will always be preceded by a formal application and a professional selection process including face-to-face interviews.

• Any communication from Anglo American will come from an email address in the following format: firstname.lastname@angloamerican.com.

• Anglo American does not ask for bank details until the formal offer of employment has been agreed upon by both parties.

• Anglo American never asks for money from either job applicants or successful applicants for any purpose – visas or work permits, housing, training or Personal Protective Equipment.

• You will know that the job offer is fraudulent when the email comes from an e-mail address with a different domain name than expected, e.g. mailbox.co.za, live.co.uk, workmail.co.za, infomine.com, gmail.com or hotmail.com

• If you have not applied for a job at Anglo American and gone through a face-to-face selection process, then any job offer will be fraudulent.

• If the email or job offer asks you to deposit any money into a bank account to cover any kind of fees, it will be fraudulent.

• Treat any suspicious e-mails with caution and do not respond to them. Contact us with details of your query at recruitmentfraud@angloamerican.com.

“Anglo American is committed to take every available step to expose these fraudsters for who they are and to put an end to their unlawful and fraudulent activities.

“If you have any queries, please send them to this email address: recruitmentfraud@angloamerican.com.”