The Hawks has issued a warning to South Africans to stop helping fraudsters by giving them their banking details.
This after the unit said it had noted that bleeding heart locals were being asked to open bank accounts for and on behalf of unknown international fraudsters.
The Hawks said it had investigated people whose accounts were found to have been used to launder money by receiving gains of fraud to then transfer to another account as a legitimate business transaction.
The Hawks said it had arrested 55 people, mostly Nigerian nationals, for crimes varying from internet fraud, phishing and Sim card fraud.
The Hawks also warned South Africans against online daters targeting people to defraud them.
The unit said people who visited dating sites must not give money to suitors they met online as they might be fraudsters looking for victims to make quick cash off of.
“Two women have recently been defrauded of R900 000 and R170 000 by Nigerian fraudsters who posed at hunks from Belgium and Scotland,” said the hawks.
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