Nokwanda Candice Kubheka, 25, said she would lay a fraud complaint this week.
This came after The Herald informed Kubheka that her name was listed on the accommodation scam advert. The Herald reported the scam earlier this month after it popped up on Gumtree in December.
It advertised student accommodation ranging from R2 200 to R2 800 in Summerstrand.
However, the accommodation address, 22 Brighton Drive, is in fact a play park in the same street.
Kubheka, a Unisa student and Ushaka Marine World employee, said she had never left Kwa-Zulu-Natal and did not know anyone in or anything about Port Elizabeth.
“I have never seen this advert. I have never been to PE. I don’t know where this lady got my name. I am lost as to how this happened,” she said.
