{"id":143905,"date":"2022-10-14T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=143905"},"modified":"2023-09-27T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:26:48","slug":"sap-africa-warns-consumers-not-to-engage-with-sap27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2022\/10\/sap-africa-warns-consumers-not-to-engage-with-sap27\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP Africa Warns Consumers not to Engage with SAP27"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Fake job site impersonates SAP brand<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>SAP Africa is aware of the site &#8211; SAP27.com &#8211; circulating in South Africa on a number of social media platforms. Whilst the site makes use of the SAP name, logo, and branding elements, it is not an official SAP site and infringes several SAP trademarks.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, the site is falsely claiming to be offering SAP employment opportunities and cash for completing tasks. Please note that this is not the case. SAP is in no way affiliated to this site, nor to the initiative, nor to the owners of this scam. Several people have already lost money through this illegitimate initiative. We strongly encourage everyone not to engage with SAP27 in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that all legitimate SAP job opportunities are posted on our <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.sap.com\/search\/\">official job site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake job site impersonates SAP brand SAP Africa is aware of the site &#8211; SAP27.com &#8211; circulating in South Africa on a number of social&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":143910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"related_posts":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19013],"tags":[5598263,5598264,5598265],"series":[],"sapn-display":[45149,5598743,5598741,279685],"sapn-type":[53361],"class_list":["post-143905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","tag-sap-africa","tag-sap27-com","tag-scam","sapn-display-homepage-hero","sapn-display-news-hero","sapn-display-news-spotlight","sapn-display-hero","sapn-type-statement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SAP Africa Warns Consumers not to Engage with SAP27 - SAP Africa News Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SAP is in no way affiliated to the SAP27.com site, nor to the initiative, nor to the owners of this scam. 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