Meadowlands police have urged residents to be more vigilant when depositing money at the Shoprite Money Market at Ndofaya Mall.
Sergeant Octavia Thebe, public relations officer of the station said, “Every week we receive reports of people depositing money for relatives that are either in Limpopo or from the Eastern Cape.
Then the money never reaches those relatives because someone always manages to withdraw the money before the actual recipient gets to it.
What’s more concerning is that the money is withdrawn from the same money market it was deposited at; we have our suspicions.”
The latest case is of a woman who deposited money at the same supermarket at Ndofaya Mall.
The woman deposited an amount of R200 for a relative who stays in Pretoria and straight after that she messaged the details to the recipient.
At around 1pm of the same day, the woman received a call from the original recipient telling her that she did not receive the money.
The woman then went to follow up on the incident at the supermarket, and she was told that the money was already withdrawn at another Shoprite store based in Tzaneen.
A docket has been opened and police are investigating further.
