A case of fraud was opened last year in October after a victim alleged that payment was transferred to a client by their company in Wadeville.
“After 14 days the client phoned the company to enquire about the payment. When they confirmed their client’s account number it was discovered that the fraudsters changed the account number on the day of payment via email and the amount of R327 147 was paid into an unknown person’s account,” said Elsburg spokesperson Daphney Phooko.
She said through further investigation on July 2, detective sergeant Neo Mokgoatjane managed to trace and arrest three suspects.
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One suspect is Ghanaian and two are South Africans nationals.
“It is alleged that the Ghanaian hacks accounts of companies and acquires South Africans’s account numbers to transfer money from their victims’s accounts. The two South Africans were arrested as accomplices.” said Phooko.
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