Two cellphone numbers have been placing calls to community development workers, ward councillors and local businesses, claiming that they have been appointed by the municipality or the Department of Health.<\/p>\n
The scammers state that they have been appointed to do sanitising and cleaning of municipalities, hospitals and schools and that they are in need of bakkies with canopies.<\/p>\n
A contribution of R6000 is asked and banking details are provided during the call.<\/p>\n
The cellphone numbers that have been used for the scam are as follows:<\/p>\n
076 518 6083<\/strong> or 079 296 3475<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Executive Mayor assures all residents that the operation is being conducted illegally and is not driven by the municipality or Department of Health. Executive Mayor, Bagudi Tolo, has issued a public notice, warning residents and government officials not to fall victim of a scam doing the rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":85146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[24657,24655,10010,24658,12898,24656,24653,24654,6108,10333],"class_list":["post-122004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bagudi-tolo","tag-helath-scam-doing-the-rounds","tag-local-news","tag-mayor-warns-residents-of-scam","tag-middelburg-news","tag-municipality-warns-of-scam","tag-stave-tshwete-local-municipality","tag-stave-tshwete-municipality-warns-of-health-scam","tag-stlm","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["bagudi tolo","helath scam doing the rounds","local news","mayor warns residents of scam","middelburg news","municipality warns of scam","stave tshwete local municipality","stave tshwete municipality warns of health scam","STLM","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAny residents who receive similar calls are urged to contact the SAPS immediately and report the scammers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"