Dead maid scam afoot.(News)

From: Pretoria News (South Africa) | Date: July 11, 2006 | Copyright information

When your phone rings and somebody tells you your domestic servant has died and money is needed for the funeral, don't fall for it too easily, or you might become the next victim in a new scam that's doing the rounds.

Jim McCulloch believed the story and is R4 000 lighter now.

At about 6.20am on Saturday, McCulloch received a telephone call from a very upset man, claiming to be the husband of his domestic servant Linah. The man said she had been run down by a car and been killed instantly, and that he would call back later because he was too upset to speak, McCulloch ...

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