A few days ago, my younger sister called me up to ask that I make a deposit for her into the account of an "events manager".

When I probed her for the reason, she said it was for registration and outfits for an upcoming event, the pay for which was supposed to be 35k.

That immediately sent the alarm bells ringing off.

1. Never have I heard of intending hostesses for an event being charged for registration much less outfits. The cost for outfits is usually billed to the client.

2. Big players in the events industry pay about 10k to hostesses, so who is this upstart that's claiming to pay 35k for a single event?

I asked for all the details she had about him. She gave me his Instagram handle.

When I checked out the page (Deluxe_event_planners), I realized that, only about four weeks ago, he was running that page with a different handle (Lacreame _ushering_agency), as that's the handle by which he's mentioned in some of the comments on his posts.

In essence, all those who know his handle as Lacreame, will no longer be able to find him under this handle, even though he's still running the same page.

A quick Facebook search of this name called up only one result.

Does this look like the CEO of a company that's capable of paying 35k per event?

My sister says this is the picture on his DP. I can bet all my hair that it's a stolen picture.

My convo with my sister

More.

The bottomline,: be careful out there. There's a hoard of desperate swindlers ready to cheat you of your hard-earned money.

Thanks for this alert, my sister got lucky today from this silly scammer.