Last month I was scammed R4000 and I have been too embarrassed to speak about it but f*** it. I was scammed coz I was absent minded and foolish. Here is how it happened: 1) I got a call from a old guy who claimed he was from the Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa.
He congratulated me for the “great productive work with Fresh in a Box” and the Fresh Farm as said they had nominated me to be given a Free Tractor! His number was +27781951497 said his name was Minister Simon Chisorochengwe sounded like an old guy who kept calling me “my dear”
The scammer had done his research, spoke to me about our BBC and DW features and asked if there was anything we needed in addition to this Free Tractor in connection with the Zim and SA farmer capacitation program. He went on to stoke my political leaning by saying stuff…
Like we need to support production in a non partisan way and “madhara auraya nyika” etc etc. He then says they had pushed for me to be given the tractor dispite other having reservations, and that my tractor was ready to be picked up courtesy of the South African , took my email
Email and said he would send me details later that day. I called my wife and told her that “guess what, we have been awarded a Tractor by the Embassy in SA!” She goes… bullshit. That’s impossible. So I shrugged it off an forgot about it. Then I got a call again from same
Number… “Hello my Dear,” this old scammers says on the phone from the same SA number! “Are you coming to get your tractor??!” I’m like, “seriously” he’s like “seriously!!” I’m like : it’s Covid time. How do we do that!? He goes: Don’t worry, we have a diplomatic transport
Coming to Zim from SA so just contribute to the diesel and you can pick up your tractor in Harare. I asked him how much and he’s like just send the driver money direct via eWallet R4000 and the tractor will be in zim in 24 hrs. Hmmm I thought. So I asked my bro in SA to send R4000 so that I wouldn’t miss the opportunity for the easier transportation of my tractor. NOW in hind sight… this guy had never emailed me details, I had not verified anything about the embassy and i had only done a Google search where the name sort of checked out
Needless to say by the time I tried to follow up the number was now dead. And there was no tractor. Looking at our chats via WhatsApp I now realise how stupid I was. There is NOTHING for NOTHING. I just sent laughing emojis. Lololol well played. I was played good.