I just sent an email to all concerned parties in the CONOPS debacle.
I am placing a copy below for anyone who did not receive it, and for the interest of new members who may be contemplating of getting involved with CONOPS.
My email:
To All concerned,
I have in the past few weeks relied on people back in South Africa to step forward and have the courage of their conviction that they were lied to, and in fact conned by CONOPS.
The basis of the case against CONOPS is quite simple:
CONOPS fraudulently claimed that anyone wishing to be eligible for employment had to be registered with PECOSA after paying a fee of R350-00.
The fraud is based on the fact that PECOSA does not exist, and is not in any way affiliated to the official labour council of South Africa.
Further to this, the PECOSA registration fees were paid into the private account of Mr Jean Oberholzer. This should have been a red flag for anyone.
CONOPS actually deploying anyone does not change the fact that they are using fraudulent means to receive money from uninformed victims. Each and every person who paid money to CONOPS for PECOSA registration, constitutes a charge of fraud. This could potentially mean hundreds of fraud charges.
The fact that they have yet to deploy ANYONE (known to anyone...not just non-existent names on a list meaning nothing to nobody), purely strengthens the case of the fraud they continue to perpetuate against people who are desperate for a job.
It seems that for all the people who wished further investigation, we have yet to find anyone willing the lay an official charge of fraud at the SAPS.
Everyone seems to be hoping for a miracle and that they will be given a job regardless of common sense telling them otherwise.
I have on various occasion invited Jean Oberholzer and Gerrit van Vuuren to supply me with three basics, namely:
The Labour representative for PECOSA
Proof of Payment to PECOSA of the registration fees
Proof of deployment of ANYONE anywhere.
Their emails to me were mixed with excuses and counter claims that ICA is not mandated to investigate them. Not one single request for info was answered or provided.
Our mandate is simple. If we have one ICA member who were defrauded, we will act on it. The big BUT here is, that member has to officially lay a charge.
I state it here again clearly, and I dare CONOPS to take me to court over this.
CONOPS is a scam, based on a fraudulent claim of PECOSA registration and payment before being eligible for employment.
Please prove me wrong, although I have serious doubt that will happen.
The bottom line here is that until someone actually gets of their butt, and lay a charge of Fraud against CONOPS, I am unable to take this any further.
I even had one guy telling us that he cannot be a “complainant” because he has a criminal record. (Where some people get their excuses from is beyond me)
CONOPS will continue to prey on the desperate need of people in need of employment, which is the whole basis of their fraud.
I have publicly posted a warning on our web-site against CONOPS.
ICA at this stage has no choice but to step back and allow anyone who feels they have been defrauded, wronged or lied to, to step up and do something about it themselves. We cannot do it for them.
Should anyone officially lay a charge, please get back to me with a MAS number, and the details of the investigating officer, and we can then go ahead and inform all the others.
Best Regards,