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Original Post Date: 2008-06-28 Time: 15:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By NONDUMISO MBUYAZI
KwaZulu-Natal police have arrested a man suspected of fleecing thousands of people in KwaZulu-Natal of between R1 000 and R5 000 in a driver’s licence scam.
The scam has been operating in 10 towns in KwaZulu-Natal that police know of. Newcastle police spokesperson Shooz Magudulela said they initially arrested two suspects on Wednesday, but the woman suspect had to be released because of inadequate evidence.
Magudulela said the man was due to appear in court on Tuesday and had been previously arrested for similar offences.
According to Magudulela, the police were alerted to the scam after they received several complaints from victims who had been conned. He said the scam had been operating for about six months.
“After we received hundreds of complaints from people, we decided to trap the suspect. People were being scammed of huge amounts, varying from R1 000 to R5 000,” he said.
Magudulela said the suspect had placed adverts on street poles in different parts of the towns advertising services for different driver’s licence codes. The advert asked people to SMS their name and surname, identity number and address. Once people had SMSed their details, the conman then promised to call them back.
Magudulela said the suspect would then phone the victim, asking them to deposit a certain amount of money into his bank account. “Once the victim had deposited the money, and upon confirmation, the suspect would ask the victim to meet him at the nearest testing ground where the victim would wait in vain until the end of the day,” said Magudulela.