Insurers on high alert for signs of fraud
DESPERATE times call for desperate measures. South Africa’s jobless rates are at their worst ever, with unmatched levels of hunger and desperation. This has been coupled with an uptick in crime and fraudulent activity, and insurers warn that even so-called “soft fraud” remains a prosecutable crime.
About 2.2 million people lost their jobs in the second quarter, adding to the seven million already unemployed before Covid-19, and if most of those are not re-employed by the end of
