{"id":34683,"date":"2021-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/?guid=638c96518c1c06c79e7605dff4eeffcb"},"modified":"2021-09-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:00:00","slug":"beware-of-brics-project-funding-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/beware-of-brics-project-funding-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of BRICS project funding scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has warned the public to beware of yet another scam which purports to be communication from the Ministry about supposed projects and funding.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the department said that in the latest scheme, the scammers are impersonating the Minister as inviting people on social media to take up new opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The scammers are inviting citizens and corporates of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) member states who are interested and dedicated to development in their respective communities and organisations to apply for funding.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither the Ministry nor the Department of Employment and Labour has issued an invitation to assist individuals or businesses with the funding,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The scammers claim that: \u201cThe SADC and BRICS has utilized funding in the form of budgetary support provided to Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, amongst others, totalling \u20ac58 billion in the period of 2018-2022. Individuals are liable to get up to the amount of R20 million and cooperate organizations and NGO&#8217;s could get up to the sum of R45 million\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry and the department has pointed out that it has not invited any citizens or corporates to participate in any so-called SADC or BRICS funding project.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has warned the public to beware of yet another scam which purports to be communication from the Ministry about supposed projects and funding.In a statement on Wednesday, the department said that in the latest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beware of BRICS project funding scam - South Africa Horizon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/beware-of-brics-project-funding-scam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beware of BRICS project funding scam - South Africa Horizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has warned the public to beware of yet another scam which purports to be communication from the Ministry about supposed projects and funding.In a statement on Wednesday, the department said that in the latest...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/beware-of-brics-project-funding-scam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Horizon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"shadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/beware-of-brics-project-funding-scam\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/beware-of-brics-project-funding-scam\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"shadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/fdceae9c738422cfffedeec2ab0f5fdd\"},\"headline\":\"Beware of BRICS project funding scam\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/beware-of-brics-project-funding-scam\/\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Medical &amp; 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