FAKE: This Facebook page advertising paid tasks at Kenya’s Kilimall online shopping mall is a sham
Kilimall’s official Facebook page is verified, and they denounced the advert.
A Facebook page advertising paid tasks at Kenya’s Kilimall online shopping mall is FAKE.
“DO YOU WANT To JOIN OUR ONLINE FREELANCING TASKS AND GETTING INSTANT PAYMENTS NOW? ” one of the advertised posts reads in part.
Interested applicants are to contact the provided WhatsApp links.
According to the post, new employees work between 11:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., with 20-minute breaks, and earn KSh50 per task, KSh200 for four tasks, and bonuses for consecutive days. Regular employees earn KSh300 per task, with an invitation fee of KSh3,000.
Other posts and advertising opportunities on the page can be found here and here.
The page under the username “Kilimall Affordable Online Shopping in Kenya” has 46K likes and 47K followers.
According to the transparency section, the page was created on 15 June 2022 and has undergone six name changes.
The official Kilimall Facebook page is verified, has one million followers, and was created on 20 June 2014. The purported advertisement does not appear on this page or the online shopping platform’s other social media pages.
Instead, PesaCheck found a post by Kilimall on 30 September 2024 flagging the advert in question as a scam.
The post reads, “SCAM ALERT Kilimall will NEVER ask you to review products, like posts, or complete tasks in exchange for payment. Beware of fake part-time job offers, fraudulent WhatsApp messages, fake Telegram groups, and fake social media pages. Always verify with us first by contacting 0730731888 / 0709924484. Stay safe!”
PesaCheck has looked into a Facebook page advertising paid tasks at Kenya’s Kilimall online shopping mall, and finds it to be FAKE.
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.
Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.
This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Peris Gachahi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya.
The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.
PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.
