R30 000 withdrawn by unknown people
The caller also informs her that as they were speaking, people are withdrawing money from her account
Police in Vosman are investigating two cases of fraud.
The first reported case was on Monday, September 30 at Clewer at about 15:30.
A 54-year-old lady reported that she received a call from an unknown person introducing herself as Nonhle Mbatha, telling her about fraud cases and that there are people withdrawing money from other people’s accounts.
The caller also informs her that as they were speaking, people are withdrawing money from her account.
She gave a reference number (311/0408/2019) and a temporary pin number (0012) and asked her for her pin number.
She created an app for her and the next moment an amount of R10 000 was withdrawn from her account and again another R13 000 was also withdrawn from her account making it R23 000 in total.
Another fraud case is investigated by the police which happened at KG Mall on Tuesday, October 1 at about 07:30.
The 43-year-old victim reported to the police that she was not aware that her cell number has been sim swapped by unknown people.
She said her number had been ported from Vodacom to Cell C and found that her money had been withdrawn from her account as well.
R6 000 was withdrawn from her account.
No one has been arrested in both cases.
