The link leads individuals to a website advertising an App.
This Facebook message declaring to contain a link with Ethiopian quality 12 trainees’ national test results is a SCAM.
The Afaan Oromo article converts to, “Great News! The 2016 grade 12 examination results are currently offered. Trainees can currently inspect their results on the education bureau’s site making use of the link supplied listed below.”
Nevertheless, PesaCheck’s hand-operated review of the Ethiopia Educational Evaluation and Examinations Service’s (EAES) confirmed Facebook web page revealed that the web link in the claim is not one of the main methods for accessing quality 12 national examination results.
EAES mentioned that trainees can access their quality 12 examination results with the official portal , the Telegram Bot , or by SMS using the number 6284
The screenshot listed below shows the site’s homepage, where trainees can enter their registration number and first name to examine their test outcomes.
The screenshot listed below programs the portal’s home page, where the students enter their registration number and first name to examine their examination outcomes.
The message under analysis consists of 4 web links , which are the same. They lead to a website advertising an App.
A Whois search shows the site was registered by “URL Solutions, Inc.,” on 16 February 2022 in The golden state.
PesaCheck has actually checked out the Facebook article that declares the quality 12 students’ national exam outcomes are discovered in the attached link and located it to be a HOAX.
This article is part of a recurring series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining material marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and various other social networks platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and comparable social media systems , third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to arrange fact from fiction. We do this by providing the public much deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.
Have you spotted what you think is fake news or false info on Facebook? Here’s how you can report And, below’s even more info on PesaCheck’s technique for fact-checking suspicious material.
This fact-check was composed by a PesaCheck fact-checker based in Ethiopia (name withheld for protection factors) and modified by PesaCheck copy editor Paul Ta juba and primary duplicate editor Stephen Ndegwa
The write-up was authorized for magazine by PesaCheck’s handling editor Doreen Wainainah
PesaCheck is East Africa’s very first public money fact-checking campaign. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein , and is being nurtured by the continent’s biggest public modern technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa It looks for to help the general public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements concerning the numbers that form our world, with an unique emphasis on declarations concerning public financial resources that form government’s shipment of Sustainable Advancement Goals (SDG) public services, such as health care, rural advancement and access to water/ hygiene. PesaCheck additionally tests the accuracy of media narrative. To find out more regarding the task, browse through pesacheck.org
PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa , via its innovateAFRICA fund , with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie , in partnership with a union of regional African media and various other civic guard dog organisations.