21/10/2024
Hi all
I'm just giving everyone a heads-up warning.
There seems to be a scammer syndicate in the Western Cape at the moment (which lends us to believe there could be many more scammers like this out there).
This company is using MassMart as their 'business' although we cannot find any details for them that reference the men we dealt with as employees. The man who seems to lead it goes by the alias 'Martin Booi' but we have reason to believe this is not his real name, and he's going by a number of others as well.
They ask you to do a load of fruit/veg, with a collection and delivery address. When our driver got to Cape Town, his delivery address was changed last minute and 4 x 8 tonner vehicles collected the load from a road near the market. This means even with our onboard cameras, they're virtually untraceable other than cellphones that they no longer answer.
We did have them down as a COD customer, and they sent us an incredibly believable proof of payment from a Nedbank account.
Payment of R65000 never cleared. He is now dodging our calls, and after some research, we're not the first people he's taken.
We would just like to warn all transporters to be careful and make sure COD money clears in your accounts before delivering goods, as the scammers seem to be picking up in the lead up to the festive season. We would hate to see someone else get taken the way have been.
