{"id":101970,"date":"2024-12-17T11:27:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zvishavane-man-loses-us15000-in-chadonha-trick-in-harare"},"modified":"2024-12-17T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:34:33","slug":"zvishavane-man-loses-us15000-in-chadonha-trick-in-harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zvishavane-man-loses-us15000-in-chadonha-trick-in-harare","title":{"rendered":"Zvishavane Man Loses US$15,000 In &#8220;Chadonha&#8221; Trick In Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>A Zvishavane man lost US$15,000 to con artists in Harare who used a hoax known in Shona as \u201cchadonha.\u201d In this scheme, scammers drop a bundle of banknotes in the path of their victim.<\/p>\n<p>According to ZimLive, when the victim picks up the money, believing they\u2019ve found it by chance, they are confronted by the scammers who claim they saw it first.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers then lure the victim to a secluded place under the pretext of sharing the money, where the victim ends up losing both the bait money and their own cash.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the victim was Luckson Daka, aged 43. One of the suspects, Wellington Nhiwatiwa, 46, appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Isheanesu Matova, charged with fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Nhiwatiwa challenged his placement on remand and was expected back in court on Thursday for a ruling on his application.<b>Buy Samsung, itel, Redmi smartphones in Zimbabwe<\/b><br \/>\n<b>WhatsApp: +263715068543<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Takudzwa Jambawu alleged that on November 19 this year, Nhiwatiwa and seven other suspects, who are still at large, approached Daka as he got off an Inter-Africa bus from Zvishavane.<\/p>\n<p>They dropped a bundle of fake notes wrapped in plastic in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that they lured Daka to the Harare Kopje mountain, claiming they would share the money with him.<\/p>\n<p>While at the Kopje, another group of five men appeared, pretending to be police officers.<\/p>\n<p>They reportedly took US$15,000 from Daka\u2019s satchel and vanished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zimbabwe<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. A Zvishavane man lost US$15,000 to con artists in Harare who used a hoax known in Shona as \u201cchadonha.\u201d In this scheme, scammers drop a bundle of banknotes in the path of their victim. According to ZimLive, when the victim picks up the money, believing they\u2019ve found it by chance, they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":101969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[17461,7945,13551,19,1901],"class_list":{"0":"post-101970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-chadonha","10":"tag-conman","11":"tag-conmen","12":"tag-zimbabwe","13":"tag-zvishavane"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zvishavane Man Loses US$15,000 In &quot;Chadonha&quot; Trick In Harare - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Zvishavane man lost US$15,000 to con artists in Harare who used a hoax known in Shona as \u201cchadonha.\u201d In this scheme, s ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zvishavane-man-loses-us15000-in-chadonha-trick-in-harare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zvishavane Man Loses US$15,000 In &quot;Chadonha&quot; 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