HOAX: This advert for jobs at Bamburi Cement is a scam
A poster advertising jobs at cement manufacturing and marketing company, Bamburi Cement, is a HOAX.
Shared on Facebook, the poster contains the company’s branding and lists many job opportunities.
They include sales and marketing officers, truck drivers, quality analysts, business development managers, laboratory technicians, electricians, plumbers, human resource managers, production managers, and security officers.
“The company do hereby recruit competent employees and interns for the programmed expansion of distribution points across the country in order to easen (sic) the access of the companies product at affordable price,” reads the advertisement.
The advert sets being a Kenyan, willing to work in any part of the country, have a secondary school education and experience in the relevant field as qualifications for the jobs.
The advert directs job applicants to send copies of their uploaded Curriculum Vitae (CV) and identification card (ID) to the web-based email address provided, which is not standard practice.
A recent job advertisement published on the company’s legitimate website directs job seekers to send their applications to career.applications.bamburi@lafarge.com.
Additionally, there is no information about the job advert on the company’s career page, where it routinely posts job vacancies.
Further, the company name — Bamburi Industrial Limited — and postal address contained in the fake job advert do not match the ones listed on the legitimate website of Bamburi Cement.
In a Facebook post on 18 August 2021, the company disowned the job advert we are fact-checking and urged the public to ignore it.
“Be on the look out! Don’t fall victim to this fake job posting. Please note that this announcement and the page under it is not associated with Bamburi Cement,” reads the post.
PesaCheck has looked into the poster shared on Facebook purporting to advertise jobs at cement manufacturing and marketing company, Bamburi Cement, and finds it to be a HOAX.
This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.
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This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Simon Muli and edited by PesaCheck Chief Copy Editor Rose Lukalo.
The article was approved for publication by Managing Editor Enock Nyariki.
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