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A daughter said she nearly missed her father’s funeral service after she started questioning whether the service director had a license.

It was a matter of transforming from hero to possibly zero in less than a week for East London philanthropist and businessman Leonard Anele Ncumbese, the owner of Asaza Funeral Services.

Scam Artists Reach a New Low With Despicable Funeral Deception To quote Jed Clampett from the Beverly Hillbillies, these people are "lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut." Fleecing people out of their hard-earned money using the Federal Emergency Management Agencys (FEMA) COVID-19 Funeral Assistance program. Part of the Federal Governments Coronavirus Relief and Rescue packages, was the Funeral Assistance Program. It provided financial assistance to help offset expensive funeral arrangemen...

A new scam is trying to take advantage of the federal program that helps family with funeral expenses for relatives who died of COVID-19.