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Job seekers have been warned to be extra cautious when seeking employment and be wary of especially advertisements posted via social media platforms.
This comes after three victims allegedly suffered a life-threatening and humiliating ordeal at the hands of kidnappers on Sunday.
Police in Limpopo said members of the provincial task team and the Tzaneen tracking team on Monday launched a manhunt for a group of suspects, who apparently used social media to lure the unsuspecting job seekers about non-existing job opportunities.
The victims were allegedly kidnapped and robbed during the ordeal.
Family members were also believed to have been contacted by the perpetrators in an effort to extort money from them.
The three victims, a male person aged 27 and two women aged 21 and 33 respectively, allegedly responded to an advert posted on Facebook about employment in Tzaneen.
The unsuspecting victims boarded taxis after they were individually directed by the suspects through WhatsApp to a certain spot in Tzaneen.
Police said the four suspects were waiting for the victims at a filling station in Tzaneen and thereafter boarded a taxi towards Bolobedu.
They then disembarked along the way and took the victims to a secluded bushy area where they allegedly robbed them of their cellphones, money, and clothes contained in a bag.
They then ordered them to strip naked, took pictures of them which were sent to the family of one of the victims, and demanded money for their release.
The suspects then allegedly ordered the male victim to rape one of the women.
The victims were found by a motorist along the road hitchhiking and took them to the Tzaneen police station at about 11:00 this morning.
The police have opened cases of kidnapping, rape, and robbery.
Community members were requested to provide the police with any information that can lead to the arrest of suspects.
