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The scammers made contact with them and then request they pay between R2 000 and R3 000 for the medical test or uniform. This is only the ones we know about, what about those who did not come to us after paying?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says victims are scammed out of money they cannot afford to lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRecently we had a person come in who paid R2 000 for a cleaning job and we had to inform the person that it was a scam.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacobs says when applying for a job at the hospital there are no fees involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will never ask anyone to pay a cent. We do advertising by using two platforms only namely the online Western Cape Government website or via the media \u2013 in the advertisements in the media there is always a link that will lead you to the online advertisement. At all times the telephone number and email address would be part of the advertisement. 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