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Abstract:Following revelations that one of their accounts was exploited in a pyramid scam that claimed to provide houses for the underprivileged for R600, ABSA is under fire for its inaction.
Following revelations that one of their accounts was exploited in a pyramid scam that claimed to provide houses for the underprivileged for R600, ABSA is under fire for its inaction.
As a result of claims that one of their accounts was utilized in a pyramid scam that claimed to build houses for the underprivileged for R600, ABSA is under fire for its inaction.
The Star has received a letter that EFF members in Johannesburg sent to a bank begging with it to freeze the accounts of South Jozi, a real estate development company that has been defrauding the underprivileged by promising them inexpensive houses in exchange for their money.
The group was discovered for depriving the poor of their aspirations of owning homes and for stealing from them, yet it continued to operate using an Absa account.
The EFF said in the letter that because the group was using an Absa account, consumers believed the claim that they could buy a property for for R600.
South Jozi allegedly collaborated with the Chinese government to construct housing for the underprivileged in South Africa.
Our estimation is that more than R10 million was transferred in and out of the account, which obviously implies money laundering. The issue then arises as to why Absa failed to alert the authorities to a possible pyramid scheme.
The EFF stated that because “the majority of our people trusted the bank more in this area, we want the bank to clarify its stance.”
The EFF in Johannesburg claimed that it was contacted by community members in some townships who were upset because South Jozi had failed to deliver the houses that residents had been promised.
It was believed that South Johannesburg duped about 2000 individuals.
Members of our community who had benefited from a housing project named South Jozi approached EFF in ward 128 because they thought something wasn't right with how the project was progressing; as a result, the branch resolved to check out what was going on with the project.
According to the party's first findings, one of its members was involved in the fraud.
The member had served as the branch's deputy chairperson until he resigned, according to the EFF.
Even after The Star exposed the housing fraud, consumers are being encouraged to borrow additional money during meetings in order to purchase homes.
Meetings were organized over the weekend by some of the project's advisers, who asked individuals who wanted refunds to express this and those who wanted houses to move on with the process.
Absa was asked a number of questions by The Star, the most of which went unanswered.
The organization said that the bank instead issued the following statement: “Absa is investigating the incident and will reply to the impacted persons at the proper time.”
Police stated that they were also looking into it.
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