{"id":69798,"date":"2017-07-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/69798\/trio-arrested-for-fake-cheque\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T12:04:53","slug":"trio-arrested-for-fake-cheque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/26\/trio-arrested-for-fake-cheque\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio arrested for fake cheque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident occurred at Wonder Stationers at the Eastdene Complex, and is not the first time that the business has thwarted fraud right on its front door.<\/p>\n<p>A man first called and posed to be a representative from UNISA, said the manager, Mr Yusuf Narath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They ordered about 196 boxes of size A4 paper, which totalled almost R50 000,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Payment was made via a cheque deposit, the deposit slip showed. But when inspecting proof of payment, it reflected a cash payment of R50 000, said Mr Narath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We immediately picked up that this was fraud and that we were the intended victims,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The men were asked to come collect their goods and at the same time the police was called in.<\/p>\n<p>Read other news here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/69790\/prokureurs-die-spervuur\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prokureurs in spervuur<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/69768\/video-gone-58-seconds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: &#8216;Gone in 58 seconds&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All three men who arrived with a truck were arrested and taken into police custody.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the suspects could not be released until they appeared before the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court, which was expected to take place on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men who attempted to pay for R50 000 worth of stationery with a fake cheque on Friday were arrested after the owner notified police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69798","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}