Kenyan journalist Chemutai Goin running promotions and promising generous giveaways? No, these three Facebook accounts are run by imposters

The Facebook accounts Chemutai Cnt, Chemutai Goin Cnt and Jane Chemutai Ctzn are running promotions on their timelines and Kenyan Facebook groups.

They all use the name and photos of prominent Kenyan Citizen TV news reporter Chemutai Goin.

The promotions mostly involve asking users to identify names that start with certain letters of the alphabet or simply mentioning which of their bills need to be paid. 

The accounts have posted many different offers here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

These accounts and their posts have been flagged as potentially false by Facebook. But are they to be trusted? We checked.

Imposter accounts

We checked the accounts’ posts and found that they were badly written, with the majority containing randomly capitalised words and letters, odd punctuation and a careless mix of English and Kiswahili. This is a red flag since we would expect Goin, an experienced journalist, to post well-written content.

Besides, it is unlikely that any Kenyan journalist would opt to give away such large amounts of cash to strangers on social media for simply responding to their posts. The posts on the accounts have similar characteristics to dozens we have debunked before.

They ask users to reach out privately to be awarded. As we’ve seen previously, they would be asked to pay a “registration” or “unlocking” fee to claim their rewards. This is usually an attempt to scam them. 

Africa Check has debunked similar accounts running bogus promotions in the journalist's name. 

Goin has told Africa Check before that her official Facebook account is Jane Chemutai G and all the others going by her name were fake. We found no promotions on her account.

The three accounts are fake and should be ignored.