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[@mandypienaar1079]

LOL

[@Ralphens]

South Africa has become the heaven for criminals, and all sort of syndicates it’s a shame how a beautiful country has become a hidden place for criminals

[@LM-rg9lj]

yep why not when things are easy

[@heatherwolmarans8287]

Oh they don't even have to hide.

[@MobBarley00]

Became? Wasn’t apartheid the grandest of all thefts?

[@devonkearns4738]

It's not just South Africa, there are various scams and corruption in most parts of the world.

[@antonjoubert6980]

We are openly ruled by crooks who answer to the mafia and not the SA people, but hey, we voted for this sh@# for the last 30 years, don't see idiots waking up suddenly

[@TranNguyen-w8y]

An underwriters fee is never paid in advance. It’s paid when the funds are procured

[@toefoo-v3j]

We live in a time where scamming and criminality is a day to day job for many.

[@witsend008]

Right . Just look at the modus operandi of the South African ANC government.

[@handyvickers]

Yup! It's ingrained in society...

[@Dude-1689]

But the dude was on to something. I give him credit for being able to trace feasible concepts. It just looks like he got lazy and spent the "underwriting fee" balling.

[@Jesus_is_Lord_316]

A world full of liars and thieves. These are the last days ...

[@eisbeinGermany]

and it was all started by evil mandela, he opened the door to it all, how does a convict who spent close to 50 % of his life in jail and upon when dying have an estate worth millions of Rands barring the property he owned,

[@annelizebuitendach7523]

This was excellent. I really hope that he will get his day in court very soon. These scammers make me sick to the bone. She exited according to her when she saw there was a problem. My problem with her is that she kept quiet despite enjoying the luxurious lifestyle with him for 18 months. She also benefitted and should be charged.

[@arielcottrell5119]

Great reporting! Hope this story motivates and aids in his arrest and some justice for his alleged crimes.

[@jeremyrogers4839]

Erin and Govan are so Carte Blanche! Excellent journalists.

[@bakoena82]

And here i thought ANC was the only tsotsi in the game,,but then again tsotsiism knows no bounds and race.

[@AnnaMarrie-SWT]

ANC is just a baby in a fraud pool of SA

[@intellifly747]

He steals people money who willingly give it to them. The ANC steals money which you don't have a choice to give to them, namely paying tax

[@markmcculloch2570]

There are always exceptions. It’s so small dry compared to anc theft.

[@sandisom23]

​@@intellifly747 What are you smoking? 😂 Theft is theft, regardless of nature thereof.

[@tanieleland9825]

😂

[@abutilesego2u59]

With all carte exposing and no prosecution it's just wow

[@eisbeinGermany]

because it is run by the ANC themselves that's why no one is going to jail

[@Sir_Maybe_Bac]

Why would anyone pay to be paid😢

[@missn2021]

It's weird.

[@p-manwecho8395]

Very strange and gullible

[@Nunu-_985]

I don't understand how many intelligent and business minded studied individuals fall for the oldest trick in the book. If anyone says to you, you have to pay them money to receive money🚩

[@eisbeinGermany]

i agree, why pay someone else to get a loan, that then means that the person who is asking for the loan has something dark themselves, I will never pay someone else to apply for a loan,I do it myself, it started in South Africa when evil mandela took over, he started the open door for fraud and corruption, how can a criminal become a president of a country

[@Jamjar-iu3ji]

It’s sooo obviously a scam

[@comancheflyer4903]

A financial advisor wants money from you upfront before taking your money you want him/her to invest with no guarantees.

[@eisbeinGermany]

@@comancheflyer4903 that is natural,one pays the money over into his banking account and he then invests your money at a fee, anyone who thinks you're investment is secure should not then invest money,as there is no guarantee of making money 💰🤑

[@confuseddad2865]

These people are idiots

[@beulahviljoen9046]

If found guilty, he should be locked up for a very long time!

[@Dude-1689]

Not "If".. he already is!

[@madampepper911]

We hope.

[@eisbeinGermany]

of which we all know will never happen

[@thembimaseko9600]

In South Africa think again.

[@eisbeinGermany]

@@thembimaseko9600 money 🤑💰 makes the docket vanish

[@Carlos-mm4zv]

This guy is probably more concerned about the underworld than the police in SA.

[@gustavdesouza335]

Thank you for this segment, Tonight I will be watching this again with my loved ones so we can tell others about what we've seen and heard

[@Ohdeesseous]

Bro thought he was the Wolf of Wall Street

[@dewaldcarstenstimberfoxfir7604]

Swine like this, make is harder for honest people that want to borrow money to start businesses.

[@gustabeumer688]

I often wonder if their are still honest people in this world. Money, money, money it is the biggest evil in this world we live in.

[@donnybrasco6675]

No Results, No Fee. Simple. People must conduct due diligence

[@nickeyroe2389]

Thank you for making us aware of yet another swindling scam out there. I agree, they must do jail time and loose everything so these victims can get something back ... probably all snorted away😢

[@eisbeinGermany]

of which we all know will never happen, who in SAPS will be able to do this job

[@jabsmzobe8048]

What I’ve definitely learned through carte blanche, crime has no colour boundaries. The amount of scamming and crime happening in Cape Town by the so called rich

[@cezannestevens6238]

Evan looks like the guy from the Fyre Festival scandal Billy McFarland.

[@Dude-1689]

😂😂😂 Legendary floppists!

[@Fish-Addict]

Based on my experience at Robertson SAPS, they can't even catch a cold from a tissue full of snot. Side note, there is a well known "security company " on Robertson housing a known criminal on their company/office premises.

[@meta4282]

Tell us in nonunceetain terms who it is not.

[@julietdrozdz7016]

Wonderful journalism. Thank you for sharing.

[@YoloMoloPolo300]

Yall should be investigating Gwede Mantashe's oldest son an the capital flows that have helped him set up his farming empire.

[@sabamakedah7910]

Is he the one that got a tender in statterheim in the Eastern Cape and didn’t do the work but got paid?

[@user-ey9jr7me4k]

Great story with professional production.

[@karinseaman4060]

If you have to pay money in order to get money, it's always a scam 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@thefamousdjx]

Crazy for anyone to believe you have to pay someone first before they give you even more money, why not just ask them to subtract it from the loan 🤣🤣

[@riaanmocke3364]

Sounds like my builder here in the western cape, he stole hundreds of thousands from people that trusted him.

[@toefoo-v3j]

Dont get me started on builders!

[@fabulous1990]

You are opening old wounds 😢😅

[@riaanmocke3364]

@@fabulous1990 Yip they all have awesome words then steal your money. We lost 100K with our builder and some even 400K gone. And he's still building in the same town. Wish Carte Blanche could investigate him🤬🤬

[@RadebeKids]

Golden rule that I use. Don't pay any deposits unless work starts also do only smaller payments until work is finished

[@stanmarr4488]

Jisses...is it a free-for-all country now?...we really lack integrity in this country..

[@fionalindenmayer]

Catherine, you are genius!

[@pebetsemothapo3038]

This story sounds like a Thabo bester story minus the killing and getting arrested, and, and, and.

[@JD-jq5bs]

I agree with that one guy. "If I knew what he was doing from the beginning!" That is a gold diggers lie, she is part of the parcel. Both guilty!

[@barendbarnes8646]

Is this guy an ANC member? Soumds like it.

[@navalfa7291]

No he is more like a skinless chicken.

[@ayandanjodo3311]

DA member

[@CMD4WP]

Both James and Torok should be prosecuted, suspect she went along until he dropped her, he is not a one woman thing. Sorry to all the victims, I don't think you will ever see your money, I don't even think justice will be served. (Not with the current SAP track-record). Thank you #carteblance .

[@eisbeinGermany]

100 % agree, only because the country is run by the ANC, of course she is involved, thy will never see a cent of that money, the cops will be bribed to do nothing

[@handyvickers]

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.... His days of freedom are numbered!

[@KojiKazama]

The police in third world countries are extremely lax. That woman also said she broke things off when she realized this was pretty much a scam, but she didn't report it or return her cut. Sounds like an accomplice to me.

[@pearlythobz]

South Africa is not a third world country,its an emerging economy

[@KojiKazama]

@@pearlythobz My mistake.

[@samsung40_media87]

ah, what a (typical) heart warming south african story

[@reneciameiring5426]

Both of them should be thrown into jail and ,throw away the keys!!! This country has to many criminals who get away with everything. These types of people cast South Africa in a very very bad light across the world.

[@rsabardoelectrical]

A sociopath with narcissistic traits served cold with a coke addition

[@miscellaneousinterests]

Cool channel! Cheers from Wisconsin, US

[@tokolloskosana3567]

They paid to get loans 😂 they were gullible.

[@Khigha87]

This is the world we live in, the one we have created - whether actively or passively. This is what we have prioritised collectively as a people. This is the zeitgeist of our time. "You can't afford to be neutral on a moving train." SoaD

[@BrooklynBwoii]

A whole Legend 🙌

[@manthestars1]

if you have to pay to lend money thats already a red flag

[@marky5493]

huh what you think a loan shark does ? or any bank for that matter?? nothings for free.....ever

[@manthestars1]

a loan shark or a bank doesnt ask for money first then pay, think mark@@marky5493

[@Jamjar-iu3ji]

@@marky5493 you’re so dumb

[@georgio3753]

There was absolutely no need for this to have been a scam. He could have gotten equity firms and pocketed the finders fee legitimately

[@eisbeinGermany]

its because it was all just a scam from the start, , there was never any funding from the beginning, why pay someone else to apply on your behalf of u, makes no sense

[@georgio3753]

@@eisbeinGermany yeah I get that. But with all that money and legitimate businesses behind it, he could have easily gotten real equity firms to give these companies money. And big companies like to out source cos they can afford it. Getting a specialist to do something for them rather than doing it for themselves is a thing.

[@dgraham1949]

Little wonder this South African had an excellent example of guys in ANC who are getting away with curruption so he took the chance to.

[@ozzi4627]

Really?😂...as frustrating as things are in our country...one can not blame others for another persons actions.

[@AnnaMarrie-SWT]

Graham, you have a kindergarten mind. You hold your race at high esteem and the originals as thugs 😂😂😂😂

[@vishackvapricorn3426]

Y'all always find a way to blame ANC for everything. There's a bunch of white thugs the white controlled media isn't allowed to talk about. ANC is just used as a scapegoat for all the crimes of the country. ANC should be held responsible, but everyone should too.

[@eisbeinGermany]

because it was all started by evil mandela

[@andrewstone2896]

This guy knows how to sell, that is for sure.....

[@MMA_Doc]

James sounds both scorned and guilty

[@TheRealZeeNkosi]

Wooooooow, hope he gets arrested!!

[@meta4282]

Most ppl when they're in legal criminal trouble, hire an Afrikaans attorney😂.

[@ingetshangana7259]

🤣🤣🤣

[@worskaas]

Hard knock life living in Houtbaai

[@sadlad2005]

😂A ledda (not letter) at 06:29😂😂

[@a_god8269]

South Africa is really a land of criminality & malfeasance 💔

[@philizeed8938]

it breaks my heart that our country is becoming like this

[@gxobinjasambemntungwa9694]

He's just being nervous 😂😂😂😂,these are the professors of white color crime the best in n the game

[@imobul7829]

Lock him up

[@ricardocarvalho1290]

How did he actually think he would get away with it?

[@kevinedwards7079]

Too much trust leads to complacency

[@mcesto]

Proof that crime knows no race lol😅

[@Jsarmy87124]

😒🙄

[@mixi2090]

His biggest mistake is that he is not ANC cadre

[@taahirasmith8829]

How does one get Carte Blanche to investigate someone

[@Minetty]

Sounds like a poor pablo escabar 😂😂😂

[@FinancialConsultdotcodotza]

Oldest trick in the book

[@tuppence144]

Evan Torok sounds like a foreign stage name for an Afrikaans speaking boy with a wicket and evil heart.

[@mysisterisafoodie]

This should be a wake up call for the xenophobic people, who insist that scamming is only for the Nigerians. People of all races and colors, are scamming. And Renee is lying, she knows exactly what happened and she is not only complicit, but has aided his scams.

[@alternativeview99]

Nigerians should do the scamming in Nigeria, not here.

[@madampepper911]

Agreed

[@manthestars1]

yup

[@eisbeinGermany]

yes she is in on it until he dumped her,

[@thembimaseko9600]

It's not xenophobic but it's to mention your name if need to be. Ugandans are scammers opening the bible in a prayer room. Run never look back.

[@SinceritySeed]

What a chancer? eeeeee wena you going down boetie.... min dae!

[@Wozza7]

Imagine this in government,next you'll hear about money stashed in furniture,Pty poppin up under tenders paid by tax payers for budgets set aside for the country,imagine

[@NorthBag777]

Beware of the charismatic leader

[@Dude-1689]

It is a smart concept though, he just got lazy. Could have introduced the business proposals to a network of private investors and equity firms. I mean there's massive capital in SA if you're able to trace legitimate business.

[@antonywilson4539]

Let's hope the police don't bungle up the investigation.

[@shakeelmohideen7172]

These are the true architect's of tsotsism 😂.. mother of all swindlers 😂

[@KingThabiso]

I wonder if it was a black guy... This would never have worked😂😂

[@charliepepper3039]

It worked very well for Thabo Bester.

[@Belioyt]

Did you hear of the Nigerian who sold an airport?

[@TheThinkingMathematician]

lol guess nigerians are evidence against that theory

[@truevine7769]

The whole airport

[@andilemashego8392]

I don't want this to be made out as if it's totally about race, yet i have a questión. If it were a black man from South Africa, so a black person with the same profile. Would some or most of these international companies have fallen for this scam? Or would they have done a better job/diligence on who they were about to into "business" with. It's an importance to remember that there are people of colour who scammers in this country, who scam international businesses on yearly basis.

[@Kalai-by-rkp98]

Hi. European and American companies would still do due diligence no matter the race. Honestly the victims made bad financial decisions and yes its bad that they fell for it. But they made the decision to trust it. Same as the whole MTI scam.

[@andilemashego8392]

@@Kalai-by-rkp98 thank you for highlighting that, and I appreciate you're input. Loads of responses have targeted such and I do think that non of all this has anything to do with race. I feel saddened when South Africa or Africa is seen and mocked for it's originality and not it's abundance in culture. We all have crime, let's not place a global burdens on one country/continent

[@borismkhwanazi583]

crime has no color shame

[@chronikhavok3407]

They are the worst coz most never get caught they are in big offices

[@MotsamaiMoeng]

Capetown is a criminal station from overseas

[@nelmthiyane63]

😊RAND MANIPULATION, 'PLEAZZZZ!!

[@lebogangomoregie8669]

Hushpuppy things

[@arnoldrikhotsojnr1803]

I have an idea that this episode was staged for the sake of creating hype for this show,just like the first episode of uya jola 9/9

[@RandB_Aquatics]

is he nigerian? No so he wont be arrested

[@meta4282]

He will simply jet off.

[@indochinaconnex4308]

I mean it’s not great but how much did he scam ? $500k ? He should be put away but assume the police have bigger fish to fry

[@Jo-be9ol]

Eros 🤦‍♀️ seriously?

[@rockboi91]

I know right😅 red flags everywhere

[@landrover-ib7wo]

Is he turkish

[@steveleroux6116]

Only greedy people are the victims!

[@maarmanrodger]

720p max?

[@vivekshivdasani9521]

I cringe whenever I hear the word “underwriter”.

[@CodeNameV]

Classic scam

[@Mr300millz]

Welele

[@wandiletembe]

👨🏿‍💻🍿

[@siviwembatane3600]

😂😂😂 intelligent and this happen worldwide isn't something new...

[@GardenofWeedenSA]

How the mighty have fallen.

[@dnxsol]

First

[@southernman523]

There is a great need for vigilante justice. Too many are getting away with lenient sentences or free for their crimes. Relying on the law nowadays is pointless.

[@kateturner1849]

Torak - that was your first clue 😂😅

[@daniegrove5658]

A fool🤥 is born every day ...people never learn..😅 if you want a loan from someone and they ask you 1st to pay them a fee ...you must emediately smell a rat 🐀..and realize it is a scam ..🤑...

[@Sir_Maybe_Bac]

Why would anyone pay to be paid😢

[@keenandutoit4275]

I'm also wondering. Under-writers fee. The words they come up with for these business processes. Almost sounds like Undertakers Fees?

[@Dude-1689]

To me it sounds the same as a Broker's fee or commission 😂 He ruined a great idea by rushing to spend instead of using the money to consult and link the business owners to equity firms.