{"id":48102,"date":"2023-11-07T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/grassy-park-police-urge-residents-to-be-crime-wise-during-the-festive-season-20231107\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:43:39","slug":"grassy-park-police-urge-residents-to-be-crime-wise-during-the-festive-season-20231107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/peoplespost\/grassy-park-police-urge-residents-to-be-crime-wise-during-the-festive-season-20231107\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassy Park police urge residents to be crime wise during the festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Grassy Park police are urging residents to be vigilant while doing online and cash transactions during the festive season.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Station commander Col Dawood Laing warned of cyber crime that is \u201ca major issue\u201d occurring daily.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laing says the 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consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/news24\/community-newspaper\/peoples-post\/hijackings-out-of-control-in-grassy-park-cape-town-20231101\" target=\"_blank\">Hijackings \u2018out of control\u2019 in Grassy Park, Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn a recent incident, an elderly woman went for advice on how to invest her pension funds, to a sangoma, who allegedly now emptied her account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe woman alleged that she received R1,4 million in pension funds and went for advice to a sangoma in Parow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 60-year-old woman was apparently advised to withdraw R100 000 each week and to hand it to the sangoma and now her account has been emptied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe request people to be really careful with their money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo cash deals or otherwise use debit cards and don\u2019t trust any strangers because often people trust strangers at the ATM and unfortunately that is 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