on social media, telling followers to beware of a fake job notice being circulated on X claiming to be from Pikitup itself.people from engaging with what it called a “fraudulent” general workers’ advertisement, adding that the misleading ad contained a number of red flags, including the fact that it contained a fictitious deadline and instructed interested parties to contact a WhatsApp number for more information.
They all have similar design work, and the same AI-generated filler text. Despite being generated with co.za domain names, the websites are all made, likely, by the same organisation originating in India. We found several clues about the origin of these websites., namely Rajasthan, India. There is also a gmail account listed here. The other clue for the origin of the websites is found in the filler text on another site, namely Jobfeed.co.za.
“It looks to me like the people behind these sites have just identified that there is a lot of search traffic on these terms, like ‘check SASSA status’ so they are setting up dedicated sites with these keywords in the URL,” Alan Hammond, CEO of