Online reports of the so-called “domestic worker death” scam have resurfaced in Centurion.
A local woman recently posted on the community Facebook page, People Who Live in Centurion that “her domestic worker’s family” had called her with the “bad news that she had been killed in a car accident”.
“I received numerous phone calls for assistance with funds to transport the body and for the funeral.”
The distressed employer said all her calls to the domestic worker were diverted to voicemail.
Other Facebook users warned the woman that it is most likely a scam and that the domestic worker is probably unharmed.
According to one user, Marble Hall in Groblersdal is where most of the “accidents” are supposed to have happened.
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Another Facebook user commenting on the post warned: “the scammers are very convincing and had a lot of personal information about us and our domestic worker.”
“We called the police after we established she was alive and well but they [police] were unable to do anything.”
In February last year, Rekord reported how a scammer spinning a tale about a dead domestic worker swindled a woman and her family out of R3 000.
The Lyttelton woman, who asked not to be named, said she received a call in the morning from a man who told her her domestic worker had been killed in a car crash.
The woman said the caller said he needed R3 000 to tow the car away.
Later, as the woman was telling a neighbour of the death, the domestic worker arrived.
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