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Man Jailed for Faceless Deposit Scam
A 22-year-old man who was influenced by friends to participate in a "faceless deposit scam" involving telephonic purchases, was jailed for four months by the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Thursday.
Magistrate Amrith Chabilall sentenced Siyabonga Mesilane to two years in jail, but said he could be released into correctional supervision, on house arrest, after serving four months. His mother wailed so loudly during sentencing that she had to be removed from the court room.
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419 Scammer Convicted
A Nigerian national will be sentenced for fraud and money laundering next week after extracting over US $250,000 from a Saudi Arabian man in a “419” scam, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Tuesday.Peter Maxson Anyanyueze was convicted in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Friday, said NPA spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga. He was also found guilty of contravening the Immigration Act for being married to a South African woman he was not in a relationship with, for citizenship. According Read more [...]
Scammer Jailed for False Advertising
A Western Cape man was jailed for seven years on Thursday after fraudulently advertising used army cars on the Internet social network Gumtree. Willem Carstens, 47, who has a civil engineering diploma, will serve five years for 19 counts of fraud. The Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court sent him to prison for another two years for money laundering, and for falsely representing himself on Gumtree as an employee of the SA National Defence Force. Defence attorney Haley Lawrence told the court Read more [...]
Former Bank Teller jailed for Internet Scam
Former bank teller Lonwabo Mqonci was jailed for six months for assisting two Nigerian men in an Internet scam that involved a bogus London solicitor. Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court magistrate Amrith Chabillal said Mqonci's role amounted to a "crime of greed, in which he had grabbed what was not due to him". He jailed Mqonci for 3 years under legislation allowing his release into corrective supervision - involving house arrest - after serving 6 months. The court earlier Read more [...]
Scamster stages 100 crashes
Mohammed Patel, 24, charged £500 a time to stage accidents which enabled fraudsters to claim an average of £17,000 from their insurers. Police said he staged at least 92 crashes between 2005 and 2008, each time persuading the other driver to believe they were at fault. The plot was uncovered after workers in an office block by the main A34 road in Cheadle, near Manchester, became suspicious about a regular number of crashes taking place at a nearby roundabout. AXA insurance, one of the firms Read more [...]
'Ebay for Fraudsters' Scam Smashed
However, on Thursday the former asylum seeker was unmasked as the mastermind behind a £100 million fraud that threatened every bank account and credit card holder in Britain.Despite his travelling lifestyle he is thought to have made millions himself, but investigators have yet to trace the fortune of a man who lived so modestly to avoid detection. From the Java Bean internet cafe in Wembley, North London, Subramaniam ran an extraordinary global criminal network dubbed "eBay for fraudsters" Read more [...]
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