Woman scammed R28 500 by alleged forex trader
LINDEN – There has been a dramatic spike in the number of fraud cases reported to Linden Police Station.
There has been a dramatic spike in the number of fraud cases reported to Linden Police Station.
According to the station’s Sergeant Takalani Sibiya, people were being scammed out of a lot of money via the internet.
In one reported case, a complaint was scammed out of R28 500. Sibiya described how the complainant said she was at her place of residence when she received a text through WhatsApp from a woman who described herself as working for a foreign exchange company. The scammer allegedly said she was assigned to assist the complainant with trading.
“The complainant told her that she was not interested but was then convinced that she would gain profit to which she agreed,” said Sibiya.
The complainant told the scammer that she would make an initial payment of R2 000 and was promised a profit of R70 000. She transferred the R2 000 from her banking app to the scammer’s account for trading. A few days later she transferred R5 000 into the same account and was told this money was for international bank charges so they could release the funds and another R3 500 for bank fees. The complainant also deposited R3 000 for commission.
A few days thereafter, she deposited another R5 000 into the same account. This amount was allegedly meant to be used to purchase the system for trading.
The complainant’s last two deposits to this account was a sum of R10 000 and another of R7 000. It was after this last deposit that she realised she was being scammed.
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