Story
By Nontobeko Mabaso
Coronation
I did my Coronation sessions in KwaXimba,Number 9 area, at the sports centre,we had a Rocky start because the weather was very bad,it was raining heavily and the sports centre is next to the river, which most participants had to cross to get to the training.So we started later in the week,and the Trainees showed up in their numbers, proving a hunger for the information that we had brought for them.what stood out for me,was that most of them were young and fresh out of high school,looking for every opportunity to make their lives better.On the day that we did the Scams and fraud module,my learners shared different scam stories that they have seen or heard of and we shared information on how to recognize a scam,that afternoon when we left the session one of my learners was scammed and her cellphone was stolen.
She said she met this guy walking on the road,carrying a backpack and wearing work clothes,He stopped her and asked her to please go and give his father his wallet because he is now late for work and he left with his father's wallet.He pointed at a house,claiming that's where he lives and that's where his father is waiting for the wallet.The guy then called his father and put him on loud speaker so that my learner can also prove that he is not lying,sure enough the father picks up and confirms he is waiting for the wallet.my learner then took the wallet and started walking towards the house,midway to the house,she puts her hands in her pockets to reach out for her phone,and the phone was gone.when she goes back to where she was with the guy,He was gone,she asked the people around if they saw the guy,they said he was picked up by a white polo vivo.
Sad story indeed,but it was a confirmation of our session we had the day before,when she got to class, she was like "haybo Miss,yesterday we had a lesson on scams and I was scammed,these things are true "