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By Ronnie Mokoena Mokoena
Sanlam
The training had an exciting and participative session with disabled business people from SEDA and NYDA, whereby the modules facilitated were Fraud and Scams, Managing Debts and Buying the Big Ticket Items. The wow moments were when Mrs Cathrine Kaeane explained to the group how she was scammed by somebody who requested catering for the Department of Education via a call. She explained that the person called requesting her send a quotation, then requested her banking details to transfer R15000.00 as the costs of the catering before she could send the quotation and said she must deposit the R5000.00 to him to pay for transport. When she asked him about the number of people to be caterer for and the menu, she was told its only chicken,porridge and one vegetable with any refreshments. But the perso couldn't inform her of the number of people who she was going to cater. She then contacted someone that she knows from the department asking her if there are any functions/event, she was shocked to hear that there was nothing happening and that person has already scammed a coupled of people from the Department database.