Cape Town – South African rapper Refiloe Maele Phoolo, better known as Cassper Nyovest, revealed recently that someone cloned his personal bank card and scammed him of an undisclosed amount of money.
Cassper took to Twitter and wrote: “Someone cloned one of my @FNBSA cards and they have been having a ball with my money. It took me a while to notice so I don’t know how much they really stole but I want to know how is it so easy to get a card cloned? Isn’t our money supposed to be safe with these Banks?”.
Someone cloned one of my .@FNBSA cards and they have been having a ball with my money. It took me a while to notice so I don’t know how much they really stole but I want to know how is it so easy to get a card cloned? Isn’t our money supposed to be safe with these Banks?
— Don Billiato (@casspernyovest) May 30, 2022
Cassper’s bank, First National Bank, responded to his tweet by asking if he had cancelled his cards and contacted the bank’s fraud department to get some assistance on the matter.
“Hi there! Have you cancelled your card & spoken to your Fraud Team about what happened? The Fraud Team is available 24/7 on 087 575 9444. RB,” wrote the bank in a tweet.
Cassper responded by saying he did, however, he still had an issue with the fact that such could just happen easily.
“Yes, opened a case and it’s being investigated now. My issue is the fact that this can even happen nje. That’s very scary. I don’t feel that my money is safe anymore,” wrote Cassper in a tweet.
Yes, opened a case and it’s being investigated now. My issue is the fact that this can even happen nje. That’s very scary. I don’t feel that my money is safe anymore.
— Don Billiato (@casspernyovest) May 30, 2022
Tweeps sympathised with Cassper and shared their own similar experiences.
Take a look at the Twitter reactions below:
I’m sorry Nyovi.happened to me in 2010 I almost went crazy cos I had saved up to go back to varsity.the money was paid back by the bank.But the airtime transactions? I couldn’t get the money back for those because my cellphone number was used for those purchases.Check ur sim card
— Kay (@kaylesabe) May 30, 2022
Big bro, this just happened to me this morning. I was expecting my meal allowance from Nsfas and when I accessed my app to check if the money is there, my account was only left with R70. I tried calling Nedbank to find out what happened but they opened a case of fraud.
— Kwanele (@KwaneleTheoM) May 31, 2022
Two months back some company took money from my @CapitecBankSA account, quickly rushed to the branch to try reverse. They said it cannot be reversed, shap i then decided to close the acc and open another one. This month again a different company took my money.
— KayNice (@Keamoge78233918) May 31, 2022
It happened with me, first bought computer equipment then decided at another day to buy pizza in fourways when I was in my house.They used my card ( had mine in my purse) to buy goods worth over 20k but I was refunded. First thing they do is to deactivate in-contact
— Lizeka Matshekga (@madlomo_zwane) May 30, 2022
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