Anglo American’s Kumba Iron Ore has warned South African job seekers about a recruitment scam being run by fraudsters, who are offering interviews for non-existent jobs at the company in exchange for cash.

The mining company says scammers claiming to be from Kumba or Anglo American are attempting to engage people through various channels, including newspaper advertisements, SMSs and email.

“We will never ask job seekers for money in exchange for a job interview or position or ask for banking details before a job offer has been made. Kumba has a formal online recruitment process to advertise vacancies, which provides a unique job number for tracking purposes. We never use local agents to collect CVs,” said Communications Manager, Sinah Pochana, from Kumba Iron Ore.

There are several ways of checking if a job offer is real or not:

• If you have not formally applied for a job at Kumba, you will not be contacted, invited for interviews or receive a job offer.
• If someone asks you for money to participate in an employment process, then it is a scam.
• If you receive email from someone at Kumba, check the e-mail address is in the correct format: [email protected]
• Check if the job is real by visiting jobopportunities.angloamerican.com

Kumba has urged job seekers to report anyone who pretends to be from the company or their parent company, Anglo American.

“Do not respond to any communication that you think might be fraudulent! Please contact [email protected] if you think you might have received a suspicious email or SMS, and report all suspicious activity to your local law enforcement authorities,” said the spokesperson.