The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has warned of another job scam in the form of a Sars-branded e-mail that is being circulated which confirms acceptance of the recipient into a bogus “Sars Learnership Programme”.
The prospective applicant is then instructed to make a deposit of an ‘administrative fee’ into a Shoprite Money Market Service account for the application to be processed.
The e-mail scam is an adaptation of another scam where individuals posing as Sars staff notify people that they have been successfully employed by Sars and are required to buy uniforms and identity cards which are Sars-branded and appear authentic.
The revenue service said it would not request that a payment be made into any other account as it did not endorse commercial venues. Members of the public are also urged not respond to e-mails from unknown sources. Any correspondence can be verified by contacting the Sars contact centre or the nearest branch.
