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2 Nigerians Arrested Trying To Scam 60 Year Old South African Pensioner. by henrychubayo: 8:42am On Aug 02, 2012 |
Johannesburg - Two men were arrested in Kempton Park on Wednesday for allegedly defrauding a woman in a lottery scam, the Hawks said. A relative of the victim alerted police, spokesperson Colonel McIntosh Polela said. The 61-year-old Eastern Cape woman went to Johannesburg to meet people who told her she had won R57.4m in the UK lottery. "The pensioner apparently refused to believe members of her family who told her that this was a scam," Polela said. A Hawks team went to the hotel where the meeting was to take place. On her arrival at the hotel, the woman was told by a so-called lottery official to pay R57 000 to him so he could negotiate a tax discount on her winnings. Before her departure from Mthatha, the woman had already paid R8 350 into a bank account, purportedly fees required for her to claim her winnings. In the Johannesburg hotel room the woman and her daughter, who accompanied her, were shown stacks of "cash" in a portable safe. "In fact, these were papers neatly covered with R100 notes on each side to look like real cash," Polela said. One man was arrested in the room, and his accomplice at reception. Both were foreign nationals. They would appear in the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court on Friday on fraud charges. SAPA . Source m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/Lotto-scammers-caught-in-Kempton-Park-20120801 I saw them live from etv. They are nigerians. Now read comments from south africans here. m.news24.com/news24/Pages/Comments/CommentList.aspx?aid=ebb2b574-efd0-43d8-a8c3-48713ff49da1&sid=5&cid=1059 Certainly, the bad ones in nigeria has continued to spoil our name and even the good ones has been affected. Nigerians are making things difficult for good nigerians. If you have not traveled, you won't understand what am saying. |
Re: 2 Nigerians Arrested Trying To Scam 60 Year Old South African Pensioner. by Chanchit: 8:58am On Aug 02, 2012 |
Make them go kako bi chicken for jail, sharp sharp... |
Re: 2 Nigerians Arrested Trying To Scam 60 Year Old South African Pensioner. by henrychubayo: 9:11am On Aug 02, 2012 |
Chanchit: Make them go kako bi chicken for jail, sharp sharp...I agree with you. But if there is a way to stop it, i would be happy cause one day, they will start a revolution against nigerians. If it starts, many would be killed for the sins of others |
Re: 2 Nigerians Arrested Trying To Scam 60 Year Old South African Pensioner. by usherroyal(m): 11:58am On Aug 04, 2012 |
The good nigerians living in south Africa should be aware of this. This is getting out of hand. |
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