{"id":176750,"date":"2024-07-17T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-exposing-three-facebook-accounts-impersonating-kenyan-governor-fatuma-achani-and-offering-bogus-loans\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T17:10:08","slug":"kenya-exposing-three-facebook-accounts-impersonating-kenyan-governor-fatuma-achani-and-offering-bogus-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-exposing-three-facebook-accounts-impersonating-kenyan-governor-fatuma-achani-and-offering-bogus-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Exposing Three Facebook Accounts Impersonating Kenyan Governor Fatuma Achani and Offering Bogus Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><strong>IN SHORT: <\/strong>These three Facebook accounts would have you believe that they are run by Fatuma Achani. But don&#8217;t be scammed &#8211; the governor is not offering loans on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Facebook accounts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61553738326030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hon Fatuma Achani Loans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100058374946167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hon Fatumar Achanie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61554179395287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hon Achanih Fatumah<\/a> regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid084GiixQrSCGnvAhu1fi4bfhcQbdJq6zkaGXDxiL1YCEecpiLjqEEqkj43HGZsyrul&amp;id=61553738326030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> loan offers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0CwZd9uqLTrRvSqrQAcDnAr1D979k3fHNH3MWGzT5A4ENZ9K8PuEASZPYGUTkYSGgl&amp;id=61554179395287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The accounts either use the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.digital\/news\/kwales-fatuma-achani-makes-history-as-she-is-sworn-in-first-female-coast-governor-n304510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fatuma Achani<\/a>, the governor of Kwale county, or misspelt versions of it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02CqSpp72hCqUeN97YZfoj36pzUQ2stk8jukA8aC1w2jRpJXbUDdq1cbETnHokVs39l&amp;id=61553738326030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advertise<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02wkfw5WhmXomDtWybXYqSkGbmZaY9CmhGZx3AUMwS1P5W2d5ortdz73i7eaZ1Rwvpl&amp;id=61553738326030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offers<\/a>. They have also used her photos either as profile pictures, cover&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407170169.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN SHORT: These three Facebook accounts would have you believe that they are run by Fatuma Achani. But don&#8217;t be scammed &#8211; the governor is not offering loans on Facebook. The Facebook accounts Hon Fatuma Achani Loans, Hon Fatumar Achanie and Hon Achanih Fatumah regularly post loan offers on Facebook. The accounts either use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[7516,49067,258,256,11112,11055,8090,19954,4269,25492,4688,430,4524,8114,257,16417,254],"class_list":["post-176750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accounts","tag-achani","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bogus","tag-exposing","tag-facebook","tag-fatuma","tag-governor","tag-impersonating","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-loans","tag-news","tag-offering","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}