Every week, young South Africans lose money, time and personal information to fake learnerships, internships and job adverts. Some scams ask for an “application fee”. Others collect your ID and certificates and use them for fraud.
Lloyd Media Lab and the SA Jobs Network WhatsApp channel exist to make finding real opportunities easier and safer. Before any opportunity is posted on this website or our channel, we check it. This page explains exactly how.
1. We start at the source
We only take opportunities from places we can trace back to the real organisation:
- Company careers pages and official job portals
- SETA websites and official SETA announcements
- Government vacancy circulars and department websites
- University, TVET college and bursary-fund websites
- Official social media pages of the organisation
If we first see an opportunity shared on WhatsApp, Facebook or another job site, we don’t repost it until we find the original advert from the organisation itself.
2. We confirm the organisation is real
We check that the company, institution or programme exists. Its website and contact details must match the advert, and the opportunity must appear on its own official channels. If we can’t link the advert back to the organisation, we don’t list it.
3. We check for warning signs
We don’t list any opportunity that:
- asks applicants to pay any fee to apply, register, train or be placed
- accepts applications only through WhatsApp or a personal email address (Gmail, Yahoo and similar)
- promises a guaranteed job or guaranteed placement
- asks for banking details, PINs or OTPs at the application stage
4. We send you to the official application
Every Apply button on Lloyd Media Lab goes to the employer’s or institution’s own application page or official advert. We never collect your CV, ID or certificates, and we never ask you for money.
5. We date-stamp and keep it updated
Each opportunity page shows the date we last verified it and the closing date. When an opportunity closes, we mark it as Closed rather than deleting it. Where we know, we show when it usually reopens, so you can prepare in time.
What “Verified” means, and what it doesn’t
“Verified” means that on the date shown, we confirmed the opportunity was published by a real organisation through its official channels and showed none of the warning signs above.
It doesn’t mean we are the employer, that we can influence who gets selected, or that details won’t change after we checked. Organisations sometimes change requirements or closing dates. Always read the full advert on the official website before you apply.
Lloyd Media Lab will never
- charge you to view or apply for any opportunity
- ask for your banking details, PIN or OTP
- ask you to send your documents to us
- promise you a job, learnership or bursary
If anyone claiming to be Lloyd Media Lab or SA Jobs Network asks you for any of these, it is a scam.
Seen something suspicious?
If you see a fake advert using our name, or an opportunity that asks for money, send it to us and we will check it. Confirmed scams are posted below as scam alerts, so others can stay safe too.
Step 1 lists sources such as SETA announcements and government circulars. If you don’t use some of them, delete those lines. If you also do something extra, like phoning the company or checking its CIPC registration, add it to step 2. Real details make the page more convincing to readers and to Google.
We take opportunities from official places: company careers pages, SETA websites, government vacancy circulars and university or college sites.