51-Year-Old Woman’s Online Bae Leaves Her Homeless and Unemployed After Scamming Her Out of R420k Pension

51-Year-Old Woman’s Online Bae Leaves Her Homeless and Unemployed After Scamming Her Out of R420k Pension

  • A woman's heartbreaking story about getting tricked out of her money went viral as people were amazed by the details
  • One lady in her early 50s had her life ruined after meeting and falling in love with someone on the internet
  • Online users were up in arms when they found out more details of how she got tricked into losing the money she had worked for all her life

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A hopeless romantic fell in love with a Kenyan man online, but it did not end happily. 51-year-old Sthembile Duma has a horror story where she lost everything because of love.

Woman homeless after meeting man online
A lady fell in love with a scammer online and was left with four eggs to her name. Image: Getty Images/Jane Tyska/ kupicoo
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Sthembile's story got some attention on Twitter, and peeps were eager to share their two cents. Many people were less than sympathetic after reading all the details.

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Women and left jobless because of online boyfriend

@VehicleTrackerz shared the story of a woman who was unlucky in love. Sthembile thought she met the love of her life on the internet when she started talking to her Kenyan man.

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Sadly their romance ended up with her quitting her job because of him, a decision which rendered her homeless and without her pension of R420 000. The post detailed that Sthembile now only has four chicken eggs to her name.

Online users reacted to the story, with many refusing to feel sorry for her. Netizens were not shy to express that being scammed online is nothing new, and they thought it was her fault.

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@Rendani27864882 commented:

"She's even embarrassed to show her face, they did her bad."

@AvbobAm commented:

"Was the eggs part really necessary? LOL, I never eggpected that."

@khantiowen commented:

"I blame her."

@Marupin82983629 commented:

"The more South African women suffer the more they learn, I mean how many times must we warn you about this kind of evils who pretend to be in love with you then all of the sudden "booom money is gone"?"

@fourrforty commented:

"Are we supposed to feel sorry for her?"

@RedumetseM commented:

"Scam sa kgale yana mo’girl."

@tebogosebs commented:

"Ao shem,was she that desperate for love or it's Kenyan muti?"

"Abafana hurt us early": Mom shows heartbroken daughter admitting she was right

Briefly News previously reported that a Twitter user posted private messages between herself and her daughter. They were discussing her child's love life as she was not happy.

People in the comments argued that the woman should not have posted the text messages as they had some specific details. Others in the comments were parents who wanted advice on getting their children to be open.

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A woman @PaulinaM1306 took to Twitter to show people her daughter's relationship trouble. In a Twitter post, the woman shared that her daughter was complaining about her boyfriend. The girl's mother included her daughter's texts saying she gets annoyed when her boyfriend replies to her texts slowly.

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Rutendo Masasi (Human-Interest editor) Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 2 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za

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