The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has warned beneficiaries about a scam in which fraudsters are deceiving social grant recipients to change their Sassa cards.
Sassa said fraudsters, who claim to work for the agency,
were advising social grant beneficiaries to open an account with an unknown
bank.
‘’The scammers claim to be working for SASSA and advice
SASSA clients to open an account with a certain bank by instilling fear that
the gold SASSA card will not have money by the end of June 2022,’’ said SASSA
spokesperson in Mpumalanga, Senzeni Ngubeni
Ngubeni said this was not true as the cards remained
functional.
‘’SASSA would like to assure all social grant beneficiaries
that the SASSA card will continue to work until SASSA officially communicates
otherwise. Beneficiaries can use their SASSA gold card to withdraw their grant
in retail outlets such as: Pick ‘n Pay, Checkers, Shoprite, Boxer or USave and
all bank ATMs in South Africa.’’
‘’If there are any changes on the grant payment SASSA will
inform beneficiaries through all available channels and also through
stakeholder engagements,’’ he added.
Beneficiaries are urged to report these fraudsters to the
nearest police station.
Done By: Mitchum George
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