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Raf fraudster to pay monthly installments.
news

RAF fraudster expected to pay monthly payments

Digital payment problems.
News

Banking Ombud highlights the problems of digital payments

Hildegard Steenkamp.
News

Hildegard Steenkamp Stole ONE rand every SECOND for 13 years

Raf fraudster to pay monthly installments.
News

RAF fraudster expected to pay monthly payments

Digital payment problems.
News

Banking Ombud highlights the problems of digital payments

Hildegard Steenkamp.
News

Hildegard Steenkamp Stole ONE rand every SECOND for 13 years

Nigerian national fraud
News

Interpol arrests Nigerian national for schemes worth over R190 million

By Thabo Baloyi02-07-2022 13:52

Interpol pounced on James Junior Aliyu earlier this week at a posh estate in Sandton for his alleged involvement in dodgy activities

bank
Mpumalanga

Bank manager sentenced to jail for stealing millions from ATM and clients

By Rorisang Kgosana30-06-2022 12:45

An Mpumalanga bank manager was sentenced to 15 years jail for stealing millions from ATM in Kwaggaafontein.

Credit suisse
World News

Fraud: Russian oligarch Versus Credit Suisse over $515 mn loss

By Agence France-Presse19-06-2022 17:44

Russian oligarch Vitaly Malkin is suing Credit Suisse for the loss of $515 million putting all the blames on a fraudulent advisor at Swiss

IEC, Electoral Commision of South Africa, Nomusa Precious Gabuza, presiding officer, fraudulent votes, casting votes illegally, Government, GCIS
News

IEC official sentenced for casting 24 votes at 2021 local govt elections

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty18-06-2022 17:56

A 37-year-old IEC elections presiding officer was arrested and sentenced for fraudulently casting 24 votes last year.

Hawks shut bogus schools
Free State

GUILTY! Thieving ex-AfriForum employee ordered to ‘pay back the money’

By Tshepiso Mametela16-06-2022 15:08

An ex-AfriForum employee is now a convicted fraudster. The Bloemfontein Regional Court found him guilty and ordered that he repay the money.

fraudster
KwaZulu-Natal

FRAUDSTER pretending to a SAPS Captain sought by police

By Nthabiseng Madumo15-06-2022 16:52

The fraudster’s modus operandi is to claim that he has been let down by his sponsors and he requires 85 loaves of bread to feed the poor.

fraud, data, hacking, mobile payment channels, South Africa, South African, digital payment methods, fraud risks, e-commerce, COVID-19 pandemic, LexisNexis
News

Cyber fraud on the rise in South Africa – this is what is being targetted

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty15-06-2022 15:19

Mobile payment channels are being targeted by those committing fraud in South Africa as it becomes more lucrative for them.

uk nurse thulile
Lifestyle

Nurse who tried to scam insurance out of R7.6m struck off register

By Marilynn Manuel12-06-2022 21:05

An SA nurse based in the UK has been struck off after faking her husband’s death to get a huge payout and hiding it on a job application.

Hawks, serious commercial crime investigation unit, former bank employee, First National Bank, FNB, Limpopo, Captain Matimba Maluleke, deceased client, suspect
News

FNB worker allegedly DONATES money stolen from deceased to church

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty12-06-2022 19:48

An FNB employee resigned after the bank discovered he used nearly R37m from the account of a deceased client.

Gauteng Transport official arrested
Lifestyle

Sjoe! KZN woman arrested for selling R2.2m house that isn’t hers

By Marilynn Manuel05-06-2022 20:38

A 54-year-old woman has been taken into custody after she sold a house that didn’t belong to her for a cool R2.2 million.

Tongaat Hullet, Ex-CEO Peter Staude, former CFO Murray Hector Munro, former MD Michael Edward Deighton, former finance section head Rory Edward Wilkinson, former legal executive Kamasagrie Singh, former finance executive Samantha Shukla, and Deloitte audit partner, Gavin Dykes Kruger, fraud, seven accused
News

Tongaat Hullets fraud case ready to head to High Court

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty02-06-2022 15:37

The seven individuals accused of fraud of R3.5 billion at Tongaat Hullets will soon be heading to the High Court.

Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation, fraud, Gert Wessel van der Westhuizen, Secunda Regional Court, 60-year-old man
News

Man, 60, arrested for R2.3 million fraud granted R5k bail

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty26-05-2022 17:26

60-year-old Gert van der Westhuizen accused of R2.3 million fraud has been granted R5 000 bail by the Secunda Regional Court.

North West, Fraudster, Court, Hawks
News

Fraudster steals over R120k, businesses paid for petrol to be scammed

By Nathan Craig26-05-2022 12:43

A 59-year-old fraudster who alleged to have been working for the National Empowerment Fund is in court for four counts of fraud.

South African rand flat as power cuts continue
News

Hawks: Two arrested for defrauding IDC of R35 million

By Thabo Baloyi26-05-2022 10:00

The two suspects are said to have presented a fake audit report to trick the Industrial Development Corporation into giving them millions

Covid aid
News

Man given R5.7 million of Covid aid by mistake arrested

By Agence France-Presse21-05-2022 10:50

A Japanese man has been arrested Thursday for gambling away the money online, about R5.7 million which was Covid aid sent to him by mistake

Social Relief of Distress grant, R350 grant, SASSA grant, SRD, Lindiwe Zulu, Minister of Social Development, public servants
News

Greedy gits! Here’s how many public servants claimed the R350 grant

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty20-05-2022 10:13

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu revealed that 5 812 public servants fraudulently applied for and received the R350 SRD grant.

hawks Life Insurance, Fraud, Hawks, Court, Durban
KwaZulu-Natal

“Dead” suspect and accomplice in court for R6.5m life insurance fraud

By Nathan Craig12-05-2022 20:46

The con artist were caught trying to commit life insurance fraud, one of the suspects was actually supposed to be dead.

Durban man, suspect, 29-year-old suspect, Durban Specialised Commercial Crime Court, Hawks, SAPS, South African Police Services
KwaZulu-Natal

Durban man allegedly forged matric certificate to attend medical school

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty12-05-2022 12:36

A Durban man was in his fourth year of studies when it was discovered that he forged a matric certificate to gain access to the university.

fraud Eastern Cape
News

Insurance fraud of R787m, killers make funeral and death claims on victims

By Nathan Craig11-05-2022 21:58

Life insurers detected 4 287 dishonest claims worth R787m in 2021 as opportunists tried to get rich quick using fraud.

Fuel, Fraud, syndicate, bust, Hawks
Eastern Cape

Car dealership owner granted bail over multi-million rand fraud scheme

By Thabo Baloyi08-05-2022 15:32

The Hawks say the man colluded with a car salesman to pocket money from vehicle sales fraudulently approved at a dealership

COVID-19 TERS
Western Cape

Mossel Bay: Ex-municipality workers sentenced for fraud

By Thabo Baloyi08-05-2022 09:34

The Hawks say both former municipal employees were sentenced to an effective three years behind bars for their scheming

DJ Zinhle
Celeb News

‘Boss Swindler’? DJ Zinhle allegedly defrauded of R500k

By Alicia Naidoo04-05-2022 17:12

DJ Zinhle’s former employee Phumzile Diko appeared in court today Wednesday, 4 May for allegedly swindling R500 000.

Faith
Celeb News

Mr Njilo: Faith Nketsi’s husband allegedly faces close to R1m fraud charge

By Alicia Naidoo01-05-2022 11:39

Faith Nketsi’s businessman husband Nzuzo Njilo is allegedly facing a fraud charge of close to R1 million. Take a look…

Police, fraud, fraudsters, Hawks, Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga

Fraud syndicate, Mr Coin, scam over 5 000 – nurses, police and teachers

By Nathan Craig30-04-2022 10:53

Teachers, police and nurses were targeted by the fraudsters in an attempt to add legitimacy to their operation.

COVID-19 TERS
News

Two arrested for stealing over R640k from COVID-19 TERS

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty20-04-2022 14:19

Two individuals were nabbed for allegedly defrauding the COVID-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme out of R648k.

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