Eskom insiders compromised its online vending system for prepaid electricity and stole billions

[Jan]

Eskom insiders compromised its online vending system for prepaid electricity and stole billions

Several Eskom employees have been implicated in a large-scale scheme to create billions of rands of fraudulent prepaid electricity vouchers, enriching themselves while the utility received no income for the units.

The scale of the fraud likely impacted Eskom’s financial health, exacerbating its debt problem and resulting in higher tariff increases to compensate for the lost revenue.

 

[Mekon]

The Arfican dream, enrich thyself and fukk everyone else.

 

[R4ziel]

I love it, Eskom employees steal money from Eskom, and to make up for it they make their already stupidly priced electricity more expensive for the consumer. And then they wonder why everyone wants to go off grid

 

[neoprema]

I love it, Eskom employees steal money from Eskom, and to make up for it they make their already stupidly priced electricity more expensive for the consumer. And then they wonder why everyone wants to go off grid

Another day in Africa.

 

[RaptorSA]

I judged them by the content of their character.

 

[Alexander the Straight]

It never ceases to amaze me the level of effort and "ingenuity" these people put into theft and crime in general, yet are completely unable to put a corresponding level of effort into doing good /productive things.

It almost seems like they're programmed or hardwired to be so.

 

[ToxicBunny]

But wasn't the whole process with Prepaid meters recently supposed to stop all of this?

 

[Vanessa13]

It's best that everyone just gets a bill directly from Eskom. And Eskom must stop with the idiotic estimates that screw people's monthly budgets at random.

 

[Vanessa13]

I love it, Eskom employees steal money from Eskom, and to make up for it they make their already stupidly priced electricity more expensive for the consumer. And then they wonder why everyone wants to go off grid

AND they punish those protecting themselves by going off grid.

 

[Mista_Mobsta]

Eskom insiders compromised its online vending system for prepaid electricity and stole billions

Several Eskom employees have been implicated in a large-scale scheme to create billions of rands of fraudulent prepaid electricity vouchers, enriching themselves while the utility received no income for the units.

The scale of the fraud likely impacted Eskom’s financial health, exacerbating its debt problem and resulting in higher tariff increases to compensate for the lost revenue.

Resurrect me when any of the filth is convicted, stripped of their assets and jailed

 

[TheMightyQuin]

It's ALL AdR's fault.

Something...something..."remote under seat"....something something "cup of coffee"...bla bla bla.

When he warned about theft and corruption, he was just a whitey and there 'cos he's privileged etc etc.

 

[dualmeister]

 

[ShaunSA]

Wealth redistribution

 

[porchrat]

Didn't take them long to crack the new system too. Wild.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Didn't take them long to crack the new system too. Wild.

I get the impression the new system was cracked before it was completely rolled out.

 

[Wut]

I think I supported one of them at one stage When I came back from a trip last year I couldn't purchase units for my prepaid meter and had to go to the municipality to get my meter "unblocked". They did that and a guy in their office approached me saying that he can get me cheap units at something like 50c a unit. I purchased R100 from him and he generated the code and gave it to me, got home and it worked perfectly, so I went back down and purchased another R1000 which again worked great. Next month I went down but apparently he didn't work there anymore

 

[Flanders]

Born to thieve!

Watch them back pedal now and tell us prepaid is going but smart meters are staying.

It's best that everyone just gets a bill directly from Eskom. And Eskom must stop with the idiotic estimates that screw people's monthly budgets at random.

Eskom direct's new billing structure for postpaid, while screwing us over because of newly dreamed up built-in fees, has actually stopped them from pulling one of their favourite tricks that would drive me up the wall - with the reason being that they did away with their consumption-based tier system.

They would short bill just a little bit for like 6 consecutive months - just short enough to not be noticeable unless you were really paying attention. Then they would lump all the short billing onto one invoice and rocket you into the higher tier. I would receive bills that were 4-5K higher than they should be but there was no recourse or credit coming my way as my meter reading then aligned with the statement.

The standard trick with inflated estimates will still happen but it will mean you will be in credit and are just forced to fork out now. Sucks but you won't lose out like I've mentioned above. Just means you have to budget for their idiocy.

 

[Swa]

Easy way to stop it, get rid of the stupid prepaid system.

 

[Ragnarök]

Easy way to stop it, get rid of the stupid prepaid system.

I like the pre paid system , no Eskom surprises , Why must I pay a estimate end of month .

And If I go away for 2 weeks and switch everything off , they still going to charge the month estimate

 

[Flanders]

I like the pre paid system , no Eskom surprises , Why must I pay a estimate end of month .

And If I go away for 2 weeks and switch everything off , they still going to charge the month estimate

If you proactively submit readings it does help to stop them from doing estimates. Not always, but it helps.