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WhatsApp's new feature might be a gift to con artists
There is a seductive appeal to the word "privacy." It conjures images of safety, control, and autonomy. It suggests a world in which one can participate without being exposed, speak without being watc...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 21:57hrs | 758 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
'Fake' bee attacks spark alarm in Zimbabwe
A growing number of Zimbabweans are falling victim to an alarming trend where self-proclaimed prophets, traditional healers (n'angas), and pastors claim to send bees to punish individuals accused of w...Published: 08 May 2025 at 12:19hrs | 1088 | by Staff reporter
Bogus ZNA recruitment agent jailed for conning aspiring recruit
A fake Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) recruitment agent has been sentenced to an effective two years and two months in prison after swindling a potential recruit of US$632.Whyson Magura was conv...Published: 10 Feb 2025 at 11:51hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Prisons warns trainee hopefuls over recruitment scammers
Aspiring job seekers have fallen victim to a new wave of scams involving fraudsters impersonating recruitment officers from the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS). The con artists have ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:51hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army warns public against bogus recruitment agents
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has raised alarms over the increasing number of fraudulent recruitment schemes being run by bogus agents, who are preying on unsuspecting members of the public. These ...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 13:54hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters exploit Zimbabweans seeking UK health and care jobs
When Zimbabwean mother-of-four Eunice Sinoya enrolled in a first aid course near the capital Harare, she was lured by the college's promise of a job in Britain's care sector. But more than a year on, ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:57hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political prostitutes
The man who was behind Grace Mugabe's youth interface rallies where she was spewing vitriolic attacks against Mnangagwa has once again by hook or crook managed to get himself appointed to lead a fundr...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 19:56hrs | 5 | by Sam Wezhira
Identity theft fraudsters arrested
Fraudsters responsible for the identity thefts that allowed them access to WhatsApp groups and EcoCash accounts of others to con people into foreign currency deals had not hacked into the phones of th...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance... a hallmark of political Ponzi schemes
MDC activist, Freeman Chari, launched an initiative to raise salaries for the so called "political detainees" in Zimbabwe and he indicated that the campaign has raised over US$400 already. The MDC All...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 19:20hrs | | by Uncle Shumba
VID 'inspectors' dupe job seekers
FAKE Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) officials have been on the prowl in the Midlands Province where they targeted and duped desperate jobseekers of money after promising them jobs. Severa...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
God doesn't carry a red political party card
God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, which simply means He is all-powerful, all-knowing and everywhere in that order.His sheer preponderance as a Supreme Being means He cannot be app...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazi
Want a goblin? Ask these guys
MR Lameck Banda from Waterfalls, Harare is a shrewd and cunning businessman.Better known as Sekuru Chitsuwi, Banda understands the basic premise of capitalism: supply and demand.Each d...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:49hrs | 3 | by Staff writer
How bond notes remind me of street scams
Plot Mhako grew up on the mean streets of Glen-Norah and Glen-View and is familiar with a street scam or two. He makes a compelling analysis of bond notes - Zimbabwe's surrogate currency.This ...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 10:10hrs | 2 | by Plot Mhako
Chamisa's dangerous post-fact politics
Has anyone ever stopped to ask themselves why Nelson Chamisa lies, is caught out and does not backtrack or apologise or retract but will repeat his lie or totally ignore the fact that he lied?...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
Woman loses car to con artists
A 39-YEAR-OLD Harare woman was last week duped of her car - a Mazda Familiar - by a fellow congregant who masqueraded as a friend who wanted to offer her some spiritual assistance.The unsuspec...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will Mugabe's ghost haunt Mnangagwa? Part 1
The saying same witch different broom seems to sum up perceptions concerning President Emmerson Mnangagwa among some of my colleagues. Conversations centring on Zimbabwe's trajectory in the post Mugab...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Tafadzwa Masango
Fake prophets use dwarf to con Bulawayo man of $7 000
THREE suspected fake prophets allegedly brought a midget to a family in Emakhandeni, Bulawayo and lied to the family that the dwarf was the goblin which was responsible for their son's mental illness....Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 09:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe refused to die on 17 October 2017
Today is 19 October 2017, and President Robert Mugabe, whom false prophet, Patrick Phillip Mugadza, 'prophesied' would die on 17 October 2017, is as fit as a fiddle and attending a World Health Organi...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 15:55hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Churches making captives of silly women
Have we ever seriously wondered why the vast majority of congregants in today's churches are women, and why they are the ones who appear most sold out and convinced by the fake doctrines spewed out by...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The triumphant entry into the cities
The June 10 by-elections have come and gone, leaving different groups of people in different emotional dispositions. Some are pushing the boat out while others are weeping and singing dirges. ...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 10:46hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Why T.B. Joshua's church collapse actually convinced me he is a genuine man of God
I know many will be surprised at this opinion but it is an honest and frank progression of thoughts from an open-minded individual, not emboldened by any personal bigotry, political agenda or reli...Published: 22 Oct 2014 at 06:24hrs | | by Johnson Abayomi
What does GGVJ seek to achieve?
Following a shameful political knockout in the July 2013 plebiscites, some people such as MDC-N deputy secretary general, Moses Mzila Ndlovu are doing anything in a desperate attempt to resurrect ...Published: 09 Jul 2014 at 17:52hrs | 13 | by John Sigauke
Micro Loan financiers swindling desperate Zimbabweans
With the Zimbabwean economy getting more dire and the formal sector dying a slow natural death, Zimbabweans are resorting to informal sector trading and incidentally falling prey to several con ar...Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bogus 'eye cancer specialist' appeals for financial assistance
A MAN suspected to be a conman is on the loose in Bulawayo, moving around claiming to be a "eye cancer specialist" and appealing for financial assistance for his patients.The suspected conman...Published: 06 Apr 2013 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man arrested for using fake title deeds to defraud house buyers
A syndicate involving five fraudsters who were defrauding unsuspecting people in property deals was on Tuesday intercepted by police from the Deeds Office in Harare's CBD.The five were interc...Published: 03 Mar 2013 at 12:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Econet warns on pyramids using EcoCash
Pyramid schemes, schemes that make a few people rich and a lot of people poorer, have once again entered Zimbabwe with this time the con artists using Ecocash to get the gullible to transfer money t...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbos dupes Botswana man, promise him herbs to enlarge his manhood
TWO Zimbabwean men who allegedly duped a Botswana teacher of his P27 600 by claiming they could provide him with herbs to enlarge his manhood to improve his performance in bed, appeared in a Botswana...Published: 29 Oct 2012 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
The newspaper is going nowhere
I JUST read an article that says that the writing is on the wall for newspapers in Zimbabwe. The technology website, TechZim, quotes statistics released by the Zimbabwe All Media Products Survey (Zamp...Published: 30 Mar 2012 at 17:52hrs | 4 | by Lenox Mhlanga
Police thwart Tsikamutandas
THE use of supernatural powers to either cause harm or to heal has always been part of our culture as Africans.As such, over the centuries, society has come to accept the existence of people w...Published: 22 Jan 2012 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Breaking down barriers, building bridges and opening doors of hope!
It has been a while since I penned a communication to you Zapu party members; there is always a fine balance in judging how frequently leadership should send messages of exhortation to the Party fai...Published: 07 Jul 2011 at 08:19hrs | | by R Mguni
Job seekers beware, shady agencies on the prowl
Zimbabwe's desperate employment seekers are losing money to shady agencies claiming to offer job training. In most cases the job seekers remain unemployed as certificates that they are receiving are n...Published: 05 May 2011 at 04:25hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
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