The thugs helped themselves to the homeowner’s valuables.
The robbers arrived, parked their bakkie outside the house and rang the bell before the domestic worker attended to them.
The three thugs told the domestic worker that the homeowner had sent them to fix the toilet.
The apparently unsuspecting worker believed the so-called plumbers to be legitimate and allowed the trio access to the house.
Once in the house, the impostors threatened the domestic worker with a knife, tied her up with a rope and covered her with a blanket, before ransacking the house.
Lying on the ground, the domestic worker reportedly said she heard the robbers loading the loot into the bakkie and driving away.
She subsequently untied herself and phoned her employer.
The stolen goods included jewellery, tools, clothing and other valuables.
A case of house robbery was registered and police are still hunting the robbers.
This is not the first attack of its kind in Boksburg in the last couple of months. Early this year, robbers used the same method to burgle a Sunward Park family’s home.
In this incident, the domestic worker told the police that she was home alone on Monday morning, April 11, when the robber, who pretended to be a delivery man, parked his white bakkie outside the house and rang the doorbell several times.
Believing him to be legitimate, the domestic worker opened the garage door, allowing him access to the house on Liefland Road.
The man pulled out a gun and covered the domestic worker’s face with a T-shirt.
He then helped himself to the homeowner’s food supply and other valuables.
In October 2013, armed robbers lied their way into the home of a Parkdene resident by pretending to be contractors.
One of the robbers reportedly arrived at the gate just before 10am and told the domestic worker that he had been sent by the owner of the house to get the measurements of the property.
The unsuspecting worker let the crook into the home.
All of a sudden, three other men joined him.
They threatened the worker with a firearm and tied her up with a rope before stealing electrical appliances and fleeing the scene in a white van.
The police, therefore, want the public, domestic workers in particular, to be on their guard if they are approached by strangers.
Members of the public, especially domestic workers, are urged to be wary of strangers who identify themselves as contract workers or deliverymen.
The best way for domestic workers to identify who’s at the door or gate is to phone their employers to verify an appointment, before deciding whether to allow strangers onto the premises. -@FanieFLK
