The Sunday News
Peter Matika Senior Leisure Reporter
HEAVEN has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell hath no fury like a woman scorned . . .
This age old adage has on numerous occasions and scenarios proved true, where countless women have unleashed a wrath comparable to that of fabled Greek gods on people that would have wronged them.
Paying particular interest to an instance, which occurred about a fortnight ago, involving the wife of prominent Kwekwe DJ — DJ Stavo — where his wife Kudzai threw a fit on Facebook, after posting a picture of their daughter, only to have it impishly downloaded by an Internet ghoul, claiming the child was theirs.
With cybercrime continuously and erratically growing, the couple is among many people across the world to fall victim or rather to be preyed upon by cyber criminals.
Kudzai had posted a picture of their daughter on Facebook, in celebration of her first birthday, on 15 January this year.
“You are so little right now but you have no idea about the large amounts of happiness you have brought in our lives. Happy 1st birthday Skyler mommy loves you.”
Much to her surprise she woke up to find that their daughter’s picture had been mischievously downloaded by an Internet imp only identified as Oluchi Felix, claiming that the child was theirs.
Instinctively, just like any mammal would do to protect their young, Kudzai posted a rant directed at the imp: “WTF IS HAPPENING? WHY WOULD YOU TAKE MY DAUGHTER’S PIC AND CLAIM SHE’S YOUR BABY????? WHO THA F..K ARE YOU???”
The couple could not be reached for comment on the issue by the time of going to Press.
In most cases most of these Internet felons, who have unceremoniously earned the name “Internet imps” steal the identities of people residing in faraway countries to commit cyber-crimes.
The most prominent of these crimes being that of the Nigerian 419 scam.
419 scams are a type of fraud and one of the most common types of confidence trick.
The scam typically involves promising the victim a significant share of a large sum of money, which the fraudster requires a small up-front payment to obtain.
If a victim makes the payment, the fraudster either invents a series of further fees for the victim, or simply disappears.
The number 419 refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud.
The scam has been used with fax and traditional mail and is now used with the Internet.
Online versions of the scam originate primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom and Nigeria, with Ivory Coast, Togo, South Africa, the Netherlands, and Spain also having high incidences of such fraud.
Nowadays scammers use pictures of children asking for donations, claiming that the pictured child suffers from some sort of ailment or rare condition disease.
