SHE was in an office on 5 August waiting to be interviewed for a job.
She saw the receptionist spray what looked like an air freshener, but it turned out to be a drug spray.
The next thing, the woman passed out and woke up in a room in Kempton Park with three other women.
“I was confused and the women asked me if I was tricked the same way they were,” she said.
The 27-year-old woman told Daily Sun her ordeal started after she responded to a job advert she saw on Facebook for petrol attendants, cleaners and many more.
But it turned out she had responded to what she suspects were human traffickers. “I spent four days in the room with the three other women. We were told to strip naked and we were photographed.
“I prayed hard and asked God to save me because I left four kids at home,” she said.
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The woman said on the fourth day, the other three women were taken to another room and they came back drugged and dizzy. On the fifth day, she was bundled into a car.
“I heard one of the men say I was not needed. I was drugged and dumped near the cemetery in Kempton Park. I don’t know what happened. I only heard a man passing by ask me if I was okay and why I was sleeping near the cemetery,” she said.
The woman was taken to the police station, where she told the police what happened.
Captain Jethro Mtshali of Kempton Park police said a kidnapping case was opened. He said they have received a number of complaints from people who were lured via social media.
“The station commander of Kempton Park is appealing to people to stop meeting strangers,” he said.
Mtshali said when the victim called the number for the job advert, she was told to go to Kempton Park Taxi Rank.
“She met a woman driving a white Polo and was taken to an unknown place where she waited to be interviewed,” he said.
Mtshali said on Friday, 19 August, police arrested a 29-year-old suspect believed to be part of the social media scam.
The suspect was charged with robbery.
Mtshali appealed to anyone with information to contact CrimeStop on 08600 10111 or send anonymous information on MySAPS App.
