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R3m dating scam case postponed, lawyer a no-show
The Star
|July 04, 2025
THREE men have appeared in court after they were arrested by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also known as the Hawks, for defrauding an unsuspecting woman of her R3 million in a dating scam.
Last week, IOL reported that a third suspect was arrested for an intense scam where an unidentified woman lost R3m in the name of love, back in 2024.
The victim, whose identity is withheld to protect her from victimisation, said she developed an online relationship with a person she believed was a white man called “Mark Hermanus’, whom she had met on Facebook.
Gauteng Hawks spokesperson Warrant Officer Thatohatsi Mavimbela said after exchanging numbers, the woman and the scammer started chatting on WhatsApp, and once they had “gotten to know each other’, the scammer asked her to lend him money to pay the medical bills of his sick son.
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