It sounds fantastic: apply for your R700 South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) grant online, with no need to schlep to a Sassa office.
“Over 55,000 citizens received R350 fund grant in 2020/2021 due to Covid. In 2023 over 675,000 citizens will receive R700 payment.A click through leads to a list of South Africans claiming to have received the grant through the online application, and asks for personal information, followed by a request to share the message on WhatsApp.
The writer stopped at that point but the fraudsters are no doubt after personal information for the purposes of impersonation fraud or the payment of fees, or both. A Sassa spokesperson told TimesLIVE: “Sassa requests clients to be vigilant about misleading information, scammers and fraudsters who want to take advantage of the vulnerable and other recipients.”
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