PICS & VIDEO: Man who made R87K writing learner license exams for people arrested in Durban

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Durban - A MAN was arrested after making over R87 500 writing learner’s licence tests for more than 25 applicants.
The 39-year-old was arrested at the Mariannhill driving licence testing station in Pinetown on Wednesday and charged with fraud. It is alleged that the man wrote learner’s licence tests and charged each applicant R3 500.


Chief provincial inspector Lance Colborne, who has been working on such investigations for more than 10 years, said they found 25 tests written by the man, but with different names.


“We identified a green book ID that had a picture pasted on top of the original identity photo. The photo of the suspect was on top, which made it look like it was his ID, but with a different barcode, name and ID number. We then realised that there were 25 more files with the same picture, but different names. I quickly recognised the man because I had arrested him before, in connection with a similar case but as an accomplice,” said Colborne.

He said the man was suspected to have worked the scam at more testing stations in KwaZulu-Natal, but for now they could confirm the 25 cases in Pinetown. More arrests for the same scam are expected as more files were identified with a single picture appearing in more than 20 tests.

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The 39-year-old was arrested at the Mariannhill driving licence testing station in Pinetown and charged with fraud

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[ponder]

A learners test is piss easy, you must be dumb as fsck if you can't pass it.

 

[rodga]

Anything happening to the people he wrote the test for? Surely they are as guilty as him?

 

[TheChamp]

Anything happening to the people he wrote the test for? Surely they are as guilty as him?

Yes they are, also the authorities who allowed him to do this.

 

[NeonNinja]

R3500?

 

[RedViking]

A learners test is piss easy, you must be dumb as fsck if you can't pass it.

When I wrote the learners test we were probably around 40 people. Only myself and one other person passed. Now that I think about it, the other person must have been a 'scammer'.

 

[Sinbad]

A learners test is piss easy, you must be dumb as fsck if you can't pass it.

Have you seen the quality of drivers on the road lately?

 

[R13...]

Yeah the examiners and other officials must have been in on the scam. How do they fail to check something as basic as that the person is the right sex (or is that gender, whichever one isn't assumable anyway).

 

[Lindiswa]

When I wrote the learners test we were probably around 40 people. Only myself and one other person passed. Now that I think about it, the other person must have been a 'scammer'.

i failed the first time i wrote it... i got it the second time!!

 

[RedViking]

i failed the first time i wrote it... i got it the second time!!

Jou dom kind.

You would expect failure, but surely not 95% failure rate?

 

[ForceFate]

This is stupid. How much does it cost to do learners? Then an hour or so of studying the rules and signs.

 

[TheChamp]

This is stupid. How much does it cost to do learners? Then an hour or so of studying the rules and signs.

For someone who is illiterate and battles with English it can be hard I guess, I sometimes look at those KZN taxi drivers and wonder how they made it through their learner's. Someone told me there was an option to do the oral test for illiterate people back in the good old days.

 

[R13...]

For someone who is illiterate and battles with English it can be hard I guess, I sometimes look at those KZN taxi drivers and wonder how they made it through their learner's. Someone told me there was an option to do the oral test for illiterate people back in the good old days.

I think the oral is still an option. It was at least when I did mine in the early 2000s.

Edit: it is still an option to go oral if you're not literate or are dyslexic. Actually don't think they ask you why it is your choice

 

[newklear]

i failed the first time i wrote it... i got it the second time!!

I passed the first time, failed the second time and passed the third time

 

[TheChamp]

I think the oral is still an option. It was at least when I did mine in the early 2000s.

Edit: it is still an option to go oral if you're not literate or are dyslexic. Actually don't think they ask you why it is your choice

Okay, I guess that is still too much effort for some.

 

[ForceFate]

For someone who is illiterate and battles with English it can be hard I guess, I sometimes look at those KZN taxi drivers and wonder how they made it through their learner's. Someone told me there was an option to do the oral test for illiterate people back in the good old days.

There are 1000s more literate people who choose this option because "it's quicker".

 

[TheChamp]

There are 1000s more literate people who choose this option because "it's quicker".

True.

 

[Willie Trombone]

“We identified a green book ID that had a picture pasted on top of the original identity photo. The photo of the suspect was on top, which made it look like it was his ID, but with a different barcode, name and ID number. We then realised that there were 25 more files with the same picture, but different names."


Does nobody actually look at the original document? What about the staff processing the payment or were they bribed to join in? What about the staff taking the test, or do "they all look the same to them?"

No man.

 

[AdrianH]

More than 25? How useless (lazy) can these officials be not to notice.

They need to move to fingers like how HA does for passports and Smart IDs.

 

[Willie Trombone]

More than 25? How useless (lazy) can these officials be not to notice.

They need to move to fingers like how HA does for passports and Smart IDs.

Or like they do for drivers licenses.