Major scam hits South African roads

Young, unemployed South Africans are being scammed into paying malicious parties who promise to train them as traffic officers. This is according to the North West Department of Community Safety and Transport Management.

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The scammers promise victims that the payment will secure them positions in the Road Traffic Learnership - but this is not the case.

One malicious party allegedly asked three young people for R700 for "transport to be trained in Welkom," with no intention of actually helping these jobseekers.