ICASA fraudster arrested
A foreign man, about 40 years of age, was arrested for impersonating an Icasa inspector and trying to defraud a cellphone dealer in Krugersdorp, Gauteng police said on Friday.
Captain Jacob Raboroko said the man, thought to be of Nigerian origin, phoned a Krugersdorp cellphone dealer on Thursday afternoon and told him that he was an inspector for the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa).
The man told the dealer that he wanted to meet him at his shop.
The dealer went back to his shop and met the supposed Icasa inspector.
The man told the dealer that if the dealer gave him R1 000 he could supply the dealer with cellphones.
The dealer became suspicious of the man and asked for an Icasa identification card.
The man was unable to produce such a card and attempted to flee.
Members of the community caught the man in the street and assaulted him as the man had reportedly become aggressive.
Police arrived at the scene and arrested the man.
A case of fraud and theft was being investigated.
The man would appear in the Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court on Monday, said Raboroko.
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