Tuks Students Scammed By So-Called Prophets

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http://www.perdeby.co.za/sections/news/3749-tuks-students-scammed-by-so-called-prophets

Students have fallen victim to a new scam which involves criminals posing as prophets robbing students.
According to the Department of Security Service’s Ronan Watson, students are approached by the so-called prophets who say that they have received divine instruction to pray for them. The “prophets” then demand that the victim purchase water to aid the spiritual process, leaving their belongings behind while they go to the shop.
According to the Department of Security Services, most of the incidents occur on Festival Street and on the corner of Prospect and Grosvenor Streets.

Lesedi Lamola, a BSocial Work student, told Perdeby that she fell victim to the scam while walking down Arcadia Street. Lamola said that she was approached by a man asking her for directions. The man told her that he was a prophet and was looking for a woman for whom he had performed “prophetic duties”.

While the two were talking, a third man joined them. The first man told Lamola that he had foreseen that she would have been hit by a car if he had not met her . He also said that her phone was possessed and that her money needed to be cleansed. He asked her to hand over her phone and her laptop and to withdraw all the money from her account, which she did.

Lamola was then told by the two men to run as fast as she could to a bus stop two streets away, where she was told to pray. “I did that and as I opened my eyes, they were gone,” she said.

Security Services told Perdeby of another con which involves criminals approaching students and telling them that they work for cosmetics company Avon. They offer the students money to help them with “stock take” but ask that they hand over their cell phone, laptop, tablet and wallet while they are working with the products.
A second criminal then joins the pair and agrees to hand over his belongings. When the victim hands the items over, the criminals disappear.
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School fees :D

If you are a dumb shyt , you must pay to learn .
 
I would have just given both of them a right old PK..

Why the fek are university students so bloody STUPID :wtf:
 
Solitude said:
Do they let just anyone into university these days?
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It seems to me that they do..

I think we need a new entrance exam, and it needs to revolve around how stupid you are, rather than how educated you are.
 
Stupid :) There will always be fool wanting to part with his money...

Damn, and I was almost on my way there this weekend with my water - just a spray against the forehead and you will pass all your exams. Two sprays 3x a day and you will get distinctions...
 
Makes me think of this one scam back in the late 1980's. Fraudsters advertising porn videos at low prices. The payment went off a credit card and the reference on the statement would show something like 'kiddieporn inc'. The buyers never received their goods.

Just imagine going to police with this proof of payment.... I remember they made millions and virtually no one reported the incidents.
 
dlk001 said:
Wow...title should be "Tuks Students Shockingly Scammed By So-Called Prophets"
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"Astonishingly Stupid and Gullible Tuks Students Who Really Shouldn't Be Allowed to Attend University Scammed by Prophets So Obviously Fake You'd Have to Be a Complete Moron To Not Figure Out it's a Scam".

Actually I'm less concerned about how these "students" got into university, as opposed to how they manage to breathe. It sounds like their brain activity is nil. Someone should study them for science.
 
Oh Jesus that Varsity is just full of idiocy..
First blackface racism/stereotyping confusion, now this?
 
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