{"id":9841,"date":"2013-08-30T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9841"},"modified":"2013-08-30T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T09:41:36","slug":"mothlante-clone-on-facebook-cons-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9841","title":{"rendered":"Motlanthe clone on Facebook cons users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9842\" alt=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/facebook-300x163.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/facebook-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/facebook.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A person pretending to be Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on social media has been trying to solicit bribes from members of the public, Motlanthe&#8217;s office confirmed on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This impostor, on Facebook, asked someone to pay him in [United Kingdom] pounds to qualify for business and contracts,&#8221; Motlanthe&#8217;s spokesman Thabo Masebe said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fake Motlanthe asked his Facebook friend for an amount of 450 pounds (about R7200), which he found to be quite odd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This person then contacted us [presidency] to ask if this might be possible and we alerted him that he was dealing with someone who is posing as Deputy President Motlanthe,&#8221; Masebe said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter was reported to Facebook but it was unclear how long it would take for the account to be closed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Masebe said the account appeared to be a recent creation, which accumulated at least five thousand friends in about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sowetan newspaper reported that Police ministry spokesman Zweli Mnisi said impersonating another person in any form was a crime. He also revealed that the state passed the National Cyber Security Policy Framework Act to address the matter. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person pretending to be Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on social media has been trying to solicit bribes from members of the public, Motlanthe&#8217;s office confirmed on Friday. &#8220;This impostor, on Facebook, asked someone to pay him in [United Kingdom] pounds to qualify for business and contracts,&#8221; Motlanthe&#8217;s spokesman Thabo Masebe said. The fake Motlanthe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motlanthe clone on Facebook cons users&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5712,4366,258,5713,1548],"class_list":["post-9841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-bribes","tag-deputy-president-kgalema-motlanthe","tag-facebook","tag-impostor","tag-social-media"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/facebook.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9844,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions\/9844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}