NATIONAL NEWS - A Mitchell’s Plain man has been left traumatised after he was robbed by men posing as buyers responding to his Gumtree ad.
Nazmie Lakay says he was held at gunpoint by four men earlier this month.
It happened while he was trying to sell his car on Gumtree.
Lakay says when he met up with a potential buyer in Goodwood, he was told he needed to drive to N1 City Mall where he would get the money for the car.
But once at the mall, Lakay was held at gunpoint and forced to drive to Tyger Valley where he was forced to withdraw money from an ATM.
“They forced me to go pull [withdraw] the money and I just did it because my life is at risk. One went with me inside the bank and the other one was standing outside.”
Man robbed of R17 000 by people responding to gumtree ad
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Posted on: 13:36 Mon, 19 March 2018
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