Christmas Chaos at Mpofu Sunset Lodge: Alleged 'Swindler' Larissa Maritz Strikes Again

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Christmas Chaos at Mpofu Sunset Lodge: Alleged 'Swindler' Larissa Maritz Strikes Again
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At least six families experienced a Christmas Eve nightmare at Mpofu Sunset Lodge in Marloth Park when they arrived to find they all had bookings for the same accommodation, allegedly orchestrated by Larissa Maritz, who has been accused of numerous scams previously.

These were reportedly the words of Marloth Park’s alleged ‘swindler’, Larissa Maritz, as she tried to convince all the visitors who had bookings at her Mpofu Sunset Lodge , all for the same dates, that she hadn’t scammed them with the booking.

This booking for 18 people was made in October. A highly irate Kruger said alarm bells rang early in December 2024 when they realised all was not well with their booking. “At that stage, we had already paid the R24 500 in full, but found out that Maritz, who was then posing as ‘Sarita’, started changing our booking.”“I decided to call her from my US phone and said I would like to make a booking at Mpofu Sunset for the same dates as our original booking.

Nadia Oosthuizen says just after Christmas, she noticed that she could not make any payments from her FNB account. “At first I didn’t really worry about it,” Oosthuizen told Lowvelder. On Monday, with a police letter in hand, she once again visited the bank. After spending hours with the bank manager, the security flags against her accounts were removed. “She certainly is a special kind of skelm,” Oosthuizen told Lowvelder.

Then Maritz allegedly told Nico she had underquoted once again by ‘charging out-of-season’ tariffs when the wedding was actually held in season. The service Maritz was paid for was for all the guests’ accommodation, the venue, three-course meals for 50 guests, tables, chairs, the wedding cake, a DJ, a chapel, a pastor, a make-up artist, a hairdresser and a bouncy castle and entertainment area for the kids.

“When our guests arrived at the wedding venue, one hour before the ceremony, they found the tables had not been set up and they had to help Maritz to do so. The lighting wasn’t right and one of the guests fixed that. There was no table for the children, nor was there a chapel. The pastor wasn’t available and we had to arrange another, and there was no kitchen, so Maritz used one of the guests’ kitchens to prepare food,” Nico said.

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