{"id":16273,"date":"2023-04-24T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=16273"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T14:00:08","slug":"alert-scam-using-advert-for-nigerias-population-and-housing-census-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=16273","title":{"rendered":"Alert: Scam using advert for Nigeria\u2019s Population and Housing Census 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stats SA\u2019s population census was conducted in 2022. The attached ad is for the Census currently being conducted by the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. If you are in South Africa, please do not respond if you receive this ad, as it is being used by scammers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scam1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scam1-152x300.png\" alt=\"scam1\" width=\"152\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scam1-152x300.png 152w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scam1-76x150.png 76w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/scam1.png 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stats SA\u2019s population census was conducted in 2022. The attached ad is for the Census currently being conducted by the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. If you are in South Africa, please do not respond if you receive this ad, as it is being used by scammers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fieldworker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16275,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273\/revisions\/16275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}