In Jabu Nxumalos vivid recollection, there was nothing amiss when she hooked up with a Joseph Ssekasi on dating site Tinder last year.
The Joburg mother was innocently hoping to get an honest, loving boyfriend when she joined the dating app, and soon she had Ssekasi courting her.
At the time, he called himself Deron Mundari, and claimed to be from South Sudan. Honestly, there was nothing amiss about the guy, Nxumalo said in an interview with IOL as part of an ongoing series on romance scams in South Africa.
He seemed like a down to earth and a respectful person. Little did I know that he was in this relationship for a paycheck in the name of love.
IOL has for years reported on several cases of hardworking women, particularly those who are in steady jobs including civil servants, who got scammed of millions of rand by unscrupulous men, who target vulnerable women in the name of dating.
