{"id":38921,"date":"2013-05-29T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=38921"},"modified":"2013-05-29T13:53:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:53:42","slug":"r50-million-mtn-airtime-fraudster-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/38921\/r50-million-mtn-airtime-fraudster-nabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"R50 million MTN airtime fraudster nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Latvian national has been arrested for allegedly defrauding cellphone service provider MTN of R50 million worth of airtime, the Hawks said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was arrested on the West Rand after an extensive investigation with MTN,&#8221; spokesman Captain Paul Ramaloko said.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old allegedly hacked into MTN&#8217;s system. At least six computers and other electronic devices that he allegedly used to commit the crime would be seized from him.<\/p>\n<p>The man was suspected of being part of a syndicate. He was charged with fraud and contravening the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act. He is expected to appear in the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Regulator chokes MTN Nigeria dominance\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/37216\/regulator-chokes-mtn-nigeria-dominance\/\"><strong>Regulator chokes MTN Nigeria dominance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bharti to challenge MTN Uganda dominance?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/36529\/bharti-to-challenge-mtn-uganda-dominance\/\"><strong>Bharti to challenge MTN Uganda dominance?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN hits 195 million subscribers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/36559\/mtn-hits195-million-subscribers\/\"><strong>MTN hits 195 million subscribers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN can accumulate, say analysts\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/36449\/mtn-can-accumulate-say-analysts\/\"><strong>MTN can accumulate, say analysts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN in $3 billion loan deal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/36402\/mtn-in-3-billion-loan-deal\/\"><strong>MTN in $3 billion loan deal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Latvian national has been arrested for allegedly defrauding cellphone service provider MTN of R50 million worth of airtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,1334,28],"class_list":["post-38921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-fraud","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38925,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38921\/revisions\/38925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}