Uncle Stoffel Reynders of Meyerton announced on Tuesday that First National Bank had repaid him the full amount after the bank’s fraud department investigated the matter.
Oom Stoffel told Sedibeng Ster that he felt relieved and very grateful.
He was at the ATM before Pick n Pay in Meyerton on May 25 to withdraw money when the thugs grabbed his card with him.
“I was standing in a row. The man in front of me used the sofa and when he was done he stood on the corner.
When I got to the ATM and pushed my card into the slot, another man came and punched me from the side.
It was just so soupy, then they got the card and they just left. It was so fast. I was so surprised.
I still thought I had the card in my hand, then he left,” he says.
According to Oom Stoffel, the thugs allegedly cloned his card in a car – “and then they blasted”.
First they withdrew R3 000, a minute later R1 000 and then again R9 895.48.
