Hawks said the scammed woman believed Gabriel Okori was a white man named “Mark Hermanus”.
Scammed: Nigerian national in court after he allegedly pretended to be a white man, fleeced R3 million from woman
Okori was arrested by the Hawks, assisted by City of Cape Town’s law enforcement and a private security company. The Hawks said the woman kept giving “Mark Hermanus” money, and the bill escalated to over R3 million. The women who are often breadwinners in their households, are left destitute, emotionally traumatised with some women reportedly committing suicide after being scammed.IOL reported that a Gauteng mother in her 50s is ruing the day she met the man who became her lover for about a year
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