A prisoner serving 10 years for fraud wrote to a bank from his jail cell in South Africa’s North West province, requesting R10-million be transferred into an investment account he wished to open.
Police spokesperson Inspector Erica Roos said on Friday the 41-year-old convict had included a cheque dated 1995 from a company in his correspondence with a branch of a bank in Magopane.
”He indicated that this amount of money was supposed to be an investment in a well-known insurance company and was now to be paid out to him in the investment account that he wanted the bank to open in his name,” she said.
”Bank officials realised that this was a scam.”
A case of attempted fraud has been opened. — Sapa