A former girlfriend of an unidentified man who claimed to be an acquaintance of Philangenkosi Makhanya, the deceased suspect in the Olorato Mongale murder case , has also come out and implicated the man as being part of a syndicate targeting women.
Mary not her real name says she too was also able to identify the man through the sound of his voice whilst being interviewed by SABC News. This was after Makhanya was fatally shot in a shootout with police at this mans flat in Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday last week.
"The thing that made me pay attention more to the issue of Olorato was when you interviewed this guy, the owner of the flat. I recognised the voice. I said 'I know this voice. And I know how manipulative this guy is'," she says.
For the five months that Mary was in a romantic relationship with this unidentified man, she not only got to know his voice as she alleges. But she was also able to witness incidences that convinced her he is allegedly involved in the so-called Romantic Dating Scam.
How this scam works is that the scammers pretend to like or fall in love with young, working, women they find on Instagram. And once the young ladies agree to go out on a date with them, they kidnap and then rob them off money and cellphones in particular iPhones.