Sashi Naidoo Loses Half a Million Rand in Shocking Phone Theft Scam
Model, TV presenter, and radio personality Sashi Naidoo recently shared a shocking reminder of why she chose to relocate from South Africa to Dubai in September.
How Her Phone Was Stolen
Naidoo took to social media to reveal she had been scammed out of a staggering R500,000—a loss that occurred just weeks after she returned to South Africa. She explained that the incident happened when thieves stole her iPhone during a night out in Sandton.
Describing the incident, Naidoo said she was attending the opening of Okio nightclub and had just exited an e-hailing taxi when someone ran up and snatched her phone.
“On Wednesday, I was MCing an event and as I got out of my Uber and into the parking lot someone ran up to me and grabbed my phone,” she said.
Sashi Naidoo Loses Half a Million Rand in Shocking Phone Theft Scam
Initially, Naidoo thought the inconvenience would end with the loss of her phone.
“That is what I thought was the end of it. And you know that story? It’s super-inconvenient. You’ve got to do a sim swap and get a new phone. My phone wasn’t insured. Fine. That’s really bad luck,'” she said.
However, she was in for a much bigger shock the next day when she checked her bank accounts.
“They cleaned out my savings account up to R500,000 on the credit card,”she explained before adding, “I had an access bond so they withdrew all the money from my bond and put that into my savings and spent that. As soon as I saw it, I ran to FNB and they did the same on FNB. I recently sold my house. All that money was sitting in my savings.”