So you have all seen those cars branded from top to toe with “Drive a new car for R699p/m – No residual, No deposit!” and thought to yourselves “that sounds too good to be true!” Turns out it is…
There are tons of scams online and some of them are quite convincing. Obviously, this guy was convinced by this one and the results are amusing to say the least. This is not just a stupid scam though, it is quite a clever mockery…
All that wine-tasting and training is about to come in handy, as it’s been revealed that wine buyers are not getting exactly what they’ve paid for, with Italian police uncovering a massive wine fraud scandal, with cheap imitations in circulation that look and appear just like the real thing.
Is this an elaborate phishing scheme or something more sinister?
The dude that is topmost responsible for calling doctors who work for the Department Of Health when private hospitals call in to Mouldmed looking for last-minute staff, is a guy that goes by the name of Joseph Maarman.
Here’s the shocker: he only has a Grade 12, and NO medical background whatsoever.
We find that the main problem with performing exorcisms, talking from experience, are that you tend to be in touching distance with a puking, neck-turning, pale skinned girl wearing a frilly white gown. Bob Larson might have solved the issue of possible demon puke dirtying up your clothes. Bringing exorcisms into the modern era, we present to you – exorcism over Skype.
Jacob Zuma’s nephew, Khulubuse, and a business partner chartered a jet for R2,5 million to fetch R50 million in gold bars from Conakry, the capital of Guinea. However, on their return they found the “99.9% pure gold bars” were nothing more than copper and zinc knock-offs worth about R7,000. Eish.
Esmere Weideman, CEO of Media24 was caught in a SIM swop scam over the weekend, in which she was robbed of R360,000. Unbeknownst to Weideman, R1,5 million was transferred from her home loan account to her cheque account by criminals who had gained access to her information via a SIM swop.
This is an incredible story. Andy and Nayel Ashkar scammed a customer at their convience store out of a five million dollar lotto ticket six years ago, and now when they tried to collect the winnings, they got nailed.
Thys Burger, a former springbok rugby player, has been caught out with his hands dirty after it was unveiled that he has been scamming charities out of money. Burger, who was capped at Number 8 three times in the 80’s, is also the father of former Cheetah players and current Blitzbokke player, Philip Burger.
So, if you thought we had energy problems, there are now con artists selling fake ‘biofuel-producing plants’ in Kwa-Zulu Natal. That was the warning from the KZN provincial government today. The province has urged people to beware of buying alien plants from people claiming they will buy back the vegetation’s by-products to be used as fuel. They are lying.