Senior / Family

Seven arrests later, the pensioner's fourteen million is still gone

A pensioner in her seventies was drained of R14 million (about $780K USD) by a romance scam crew operating out of Cape Town between 2017 and 2018. Eight years later, the Hawks are still making arrests. The money is still gone.

By Mark Tell · Jul 28
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