Job scams were at 62% in the research conducted between 23rd March-14th May 2022 with respondents aged between 18 to 24 years.

This comes at a time when the Country is facing an increase in the number of job scam adverts with the most recent being the Kenya Airways (KQ) advert.

The advert saw the National carrier warn Kenyans against applying for jobs that could see them get paid Kes60,000 per month.

Kenya Airways said in a statement released on January 16, 2023, KQ that the fake job advertisement asked Kenyans interested to work as cleaners, toll attendants, and recruit clerks to send their applications.

Further, the advertisement also said that the job opportunities were connected with a Chinese engineering contracting company CRBC.

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 They were asked to send their curriculum Vitae through an email address that they had provided.

However, the National Carrier told Kenyans that their job opportunities are usually advertised with the organization on their LinkedIn with more than 250,000 followers.

Further, KQ warned Kenyns against being coneed by the fraudsters .

There are assumptions that the rise in the number of fake job scam adverts in the Country is due to unemployment.


Speaking during the presentation of the report, TIFA Research Chief Executive Officer, Maggie Ireri noted the high number of job scams in the Country.

"A large number of youths are unemployed . The scammers post jobs and some of those jobs are used to generate income because they ask people applying for them to pay," she said.

Jobs' scams were followed by the death of celebrities at 27%, false side effects of Covid 19 at 19% and fake doctors giving advice at 18% as other common forms of misinformation.


Further, according to the report, Facebook is the leading social media platform spreading misinformation at 90%, followed by WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and Tiktok

In the recommendations of the report, Kenyans are calling on the government to act by putting reasonable restrictions on social media companies.

Additionally, they want educational campaigns to help people find and report mis/disinformation and fake news