A total of R800 000 was transferred out of a Kempton Park woman’s paid-up mortgage account in a cellphone scam, the Beeld reported on Thursday.

The woman, Rensu Nel, an education specialist at the Gauteng education department, told the newspaper she received strange phone calls.

“I turned my phone off after a man continued to call me without saying anything. A filthy SMS was also sent to my phone.”

When Nel later tried to switch her phone on, she could not and later realised that her phone had been blocked.

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