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Naivas supermarket jobs? Another fake Facebook page

A Facebook page “Naivas Supermarket Jobs” has been advertising vacancies at Naivas supermarket, a supermarket chain in Kenya.

Ads have been posted repeatedly since the page was created in 2019.

All link to a Google Form, advertising thousands of open jobs at the supermarket chain. The supermarket has denied their existence.

Africa Check checked one of the posts on the page in May 2020 and found it to be fake. The rest are too.



Clues page and ads fake


The Google Form gives suspiciously low requirements for those wishing to apply. Applicants must be 18 or older, know a local dialect and be ready to work at the supermarket, while salaries are said to start at KSh18,500.

We also discovered that the deadlines for applications keep shifting to later dates, as new posts are published linking to the same form. 

The form also asks applicants to pay KSh500 as a “registration fee”. This is a clear indicator that the page is a scam.

Naivas supermarket has an official Facebook page. It was created on 19 August 2010 and has more than 120,000 followers. 

But the jobs page was created on 16 April 2019 and has only about 2,000 followers. This is another hint that it isn’t legitimate. 

To protect yourself against scams, read our guide to Facebook scams and how to spot them. Report any suspicious Facebook posts by clicking “report post” on the top right of any post. – Dancan Bwire




 

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