Tell your story#31(Be wise as a serpent)
Greetings beautiful ladies,
I trust you are all doing great, happy weekend and happy new year to you all once again.
I am @tripple-e, and I appreciate @ruthjoe for staying true to this contest, grace to keep pushing ma'am.
I want to share a little ugly experience I had yesterday, I call it little because it's nothing because i learnt a lesson in the process.
Should I say I wasn't happy or I should say I was disappointed... Well I think I had the both feelings yesterday.
There's a saying in my dialect that says "fehe Owo" meaning "fear human beings".
I have this weakness or should I say a tendency that makes me to trust people blindly; like I tend to trust someone easily. Maybe it's because of how I'm wired and the upbringing I received I don't know how to cut corners I say things the way they are, but God will help me.
So there's this acclaimed bag vendor I saw on Facebook advertising her products claiming that she was doing promo sales, I indicated interest and decided to reach out to her through the WhatsApp link on the post because I actually wanted to bag hand bags before now, so when I saw her claiming to run a promo I know the prices would be slashed, that's always the cases with promotional products.
So I chatted her up on WhatsApp and she was readily responding to my chats, I asked her prices and her location, all along I thought she stays within my State so I can easily walk into her store to buy but she claimed to resides in Bayelsa state although its not too far from my state for her to do a waybill.
So I asked her to send me the pictures of the available bags for me to choose, she did 👇
Meanwhile she told me that 2 bags goes for #7,000 with delivery making it #9,000, I never had any doubt because that wasn't my first time of ordering things online and they came through.
I told her that I want to give her benefit of doubt although I don't subscribe to "payment before delivery" that if she stays true that my sister also needed some bags that I'll recommend her.
See her response from the screenshot of our chats, I want you to read it yourself 🤣🤣. Chai I entered one chance 👇
Ah! May thun.der fire that her heart she claimed she crossed. Imagine telling she "cross her heart"♥️, she even added emoji of love for scamming me.
So I finally made the transfer sent her a proof of payment, the delivery details she promised to send to me I didn't see again o, sister scammer went offline since yesterday till now. And she thinks she has won, oh dears she just met her waterloo.
*Please watch out for this name Fatima wears and the account details I made the transfer is STECS(Oluwatosin Bello).
Moral Lesson:
We are living in a wicked world and life is already hard as it is, please be wise and watchful don't make life harder by trusting blindly without verifying and confirming; because there are people who are wolves in sheep 🐑 clothing.
As for me i can't trust people again especially strangers without doing my checks and balances.
I'll leave you with this portion of the bible in Colossians 4:2
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgivings.
All the screenshot are from my phone
Hmm, this is a sad one.
People have resolve to making money through dishonest means.
I pray that she will really get to meet her match
0.00 SBD,
0.08 STEEM,
0.08 SP
Amen. Thank you dear
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I'm so sorry that happened to you dear sis.
I too got scammed years back and even got my account hacked. It's really distressing to get scammed by someone you thought was a sincere seller.
I hope you recover from this soon and I suggest you check the page of sellers online before buying from them.
An authentic seller will have a good amount of engagement on his or her posts, will post frequently and also show his or her face in one way or another and must have maintained a particular account for years.
Any seller who opened an account newly, doesn't post personal pictures, has low engagement on posts, probably no face on the profile picture is likely a scammer. Sorry once again🥺🥺
Thank you dear, I have noted that. Lesson learnt
This is serious! She swore with her life and that of her kids..hmmm yet she scammed you! This life ..
Seriously sis, human beings imagine the extent.
Oh my dear, I'm very sorry about such experience you had. You see, when you have a good heart, you easily trust anyone, I trust people so much too because I feel everyone is or should be like me. Unfortunately, I am on my own. I have been served breakfast by scammers like this as well, and so, if not vendors in Uyo, where his/her picture is shown on his account and also someone who's verified on breeze or winning online markets, I don't do any business with them.
He or she thinks your hard earned money will prosper them not knowing they have incurred God's punishment on their heads this new year. I pity the children that such evil will have because the lives of his or her children born and unborn has already been sold out by the so called parent.
Take it as one of those things that happen to people, take that as though you were sick and that you used the money to buy drugs to take care of your health. Because God is sending a strong devoured to such person(s) immediately.
Best wishes dear!
Thank you sis for reading and your words of encouragement. I appreciate
Uwc
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So sorry about such experience dear. Hmm some people get mind sha. But what they don't know is that there are are people you scam and you are cursed eternally.
It is well with you dear. Sorry about that.
I am her doom and final bus stop. Thank you sis for stopping by.
Thank you for participating in this contest. Am really speechless as to the length human go to make money. It's well. …..
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