South Africa: Simon’s Town farm targeted in power disconnection scam

Dr Paul Rowe, the owner of Rocklands Farm in Simon’s Town, received a flood of alarming messages on Monday, 5 August from a man claiming to be “Davis Mfundo”, an Eskom official. Mfundo told Rowe a ticket had been issued to disconnect the farm’s power supply due to tampering with a prepaid electricity box. To prevent the disconnection, he demanded a payment of R5,000.

“He claimed to work for Eskom and said he had received a notice that one of the prepaid boxes had been tampered…