{"id":176796,"date":"2024-07-18T07:11:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyans-dont-fall-for-fake-loan-offers-from-the-facebook-page-kopa-loans\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T07:11:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T05:11:25","slug":"kenyans-dont-fall-for-fake-loan-offers-from-the-facebook-page-kopa-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyans-dont-fall-for-fake-loan-offers-from-the-facebook-page-kopa-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans, Don&#8217;t Fall for Fake Loan Offers From the Facebook Page &#8216;Kopa Loans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><strong>IN SHORT: <\/strong>There is a growing number of Facebook accounts and pages claiming to offer quick loans to Kenyans. But many are fake, and this page is just one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61558654898789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kopa Loans<\/a> offers Kenyans<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid027ZYo1ff4gU3HsLoLa2bw8Za8ZwZAKcxHad2udVujhwqkJmnawMiT8VzRxR3PUTC5l&amp;id=61558654898789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> up to<\/a> KSh80,000 (about US$615) in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02VqiunsKYzQZuufCfDACuJULAJJWi7oP4DALnJduimUcesaLfV1PYQqWcyJQzVg3Ll&amp;id=61558654898789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0H2SVtjVbwSYJE7TkngJ7QnpptkuepdWD7tLjFvbK2sCPbqqKEq3n24yv8894Nq3al&amp;id=61558654898789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apply<\/a>, the page asks users to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0hX3crGj41SjZ7r9RXqGQKRgg7AyX8JMdKFASRUSTzW55GCFUypTEyRfqqjmQPycpl&amp;id=61558654898789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">send<\/a> the word &#8220;LOAN&#8221; to &#8220;0104650170&#8221; or call the same number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The page&#8217;s posts have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02x9pq6wzC2Y8pf5aHaDRbJMSVo25z3NeWLRHynTmnS7Smsg6xpPiri3ZEqSVADyHbl&amp;id=61558654898789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attracted<\/a> hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0P6eFSLWmvxQmvSEQk4XTw19Uzt6bnaCBRoqPFzRxLdA2zevLCpFaMTyph4y6Q8U4l&amp;id=61558654898789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engagements<\/a> from interested users. They have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02kWoDzFyDmpsrTy6uNpRFKXzNdVNK91BAoGERoQVM5kQ24gYG5uHiEatyydo8BrLNl&amp;id=61558654898789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">republished<\/a> several times in Facebook groups with thousands&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407170166.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: There is a growing number of Facebook accounts and pages claiming to offer quick loans to Kenyans. But many are fake, and this page is just one of them. The Facebook page Kopa Loans offers Kenyans up to KSh80,000 (about US$615) in loans. To apply, the page asks users to send the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176797,"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":[258,256,7207,8090,6891,9140,430,9058,49071,8828,8114,257,10997,16851,254],"class_list":["post-176796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dont","tag-facebook","tag-fake","tag-fall","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-kopa","tag-loan","tag-loans","tag-news","tag-offers","tag-page","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\/176796","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=176796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}