By Kate Halim
Even though there are legitimate vendors on social media who receive payments for goods and satisfy their clients with their services, some unscrupulous elements have used the same medium to scam people.
At different times on social media, some people have called out online vendors who scammed them of their hard-earned money either by not delivering what such clients made payments for or by sending them substandard items.
Saturday Sun spoke to some of the victims of these online vendors and they have different stories to tell.
Last year, Omolola Ogunsakin said she was scammed by an Instagram vendor after she paid for some items that were never delivered to her. She revealed that after making a payment to this alleged seller, the person blocked her on the social media platform.
“I didn’t know it was a fraudulent page because the seller seemed legitimate enough. There were many pictures of fashion items and the account had massive followers. I was scammed of N25, 000 in September of last year. The thing that annoys me most about this incident is that Instagram refused to take down the business page even after my friends and I massively reported the page for fraudulent activities,” she said.
Ogunsakin explained that the first time the business page came up on her Instagram feed, she instantly followed the account because she had a party to attend the following month and she didn’t have the time to go shopping in the market. She said she thought it was a good…
