{"id":6606,"date":"2013-07-03T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6606"},"modified":"2013-07-03T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:30:04","slug":"two-people-arrested-in-w-cape-for-black-dollar-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6606","title":{"rendered":"Two people arrested in W. Cape for &#8216;black dollar scam&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dollar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5328\" alt=\"dollar\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dollar-300x181.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dollar-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dollar.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two people were arrested for running a &#8220;black dollar scam&#8221; in Cape Town on Tuesday, said police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A man complained to the police that he gave three Congolese men a large number of bank notes, believing they would convert them to dollars and multiply them, said Captain Frederick Van Wyk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he was left with pieces of paper dyed black while they took his money, supposedly to buy the chemicals needed to wash the new &#8220;money&#8221;, which they claimed had been dyed to avoid detection by customs officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police found two men in Maitland in possession of blank pieces of paper used to trick people into participating in the scam, said Van Wyk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The men, aged 28 and 41, were arrested and would appear in the Cape Town Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday on fraud charges. The third man was still at large. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were arrested for running a &#8220;black dollar scam&#8221; in Cape Town on Tuesday, said police. A man complained to the police that he gave three Congolese men a large number of bank notes, believing they would convert them to dollars and multiply them, said Captain Frederick Van Wyk. However, he was left with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two people arrested in W. Cape for &#8216;black dollar scam&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3665,3666,34,1268,3667,399],"class_list":["post-6606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-black-dollar","tag-congolese","tag-crime","tag-fraud","tag-scam","tag-western-cape"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dollar.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}