Field Marshal
Elder Lister
With the explosion of the Internet in the country, many entrepreneurs/celebs in central Kenya have moved to establish online media outlets, including TVs and Youtube channels.
Unfortunately many of these people do not have media training. They are very easy to take advantage off.
So you have a popular Gikuyu singer with 100K followers on Youtube starting to interview people on his channel.
Enter the conman/woman.
They come up with sob stories in the interviews and then ask the public to help them.
Crazily, you see the same people across all the channels, meaning a crafty few have discovered a niche.
By the way, this con was very common in the mainstream media back in the early 2000s. You would open the Nation and see ads, placed free, asking for funds to treat a child (it was always a child) of some crazy disease in India. Thousands would send money.
Fortunately, the scam was discovered by some of us and the appeal ads were banned.
Now you are warned. If like me you watch some of these channels when you are bored, better send any monies you want to donate to Guka's WhiteKAP Fund (GWF).
It is a much more worthwhile use of your money than sending it to a malaya who claims that she was raped by 34 men and now has to attend clinics every two days.
Unfortunately many of these people do not have media training. They are very easy to take advantage off.
So you have a popular Gikuyu singer with 100K followers on Youtube starting to interview people on his channel.
Enter the conman/woman.
They come up with sob stories in the interviews and then ask the public to help them.
Crazily, you see the same people across all the channels, meaning a crafty few have discovered a niche.
By the way, this con was very common in the mainstream media back in the early 2000s. You would open the Nation and see ads, placed free, asking for funds to treat a child (it was always a child) of some crazy disease in India. Thousands would send money.
Fortunately, the scam was discovered by some of us and the appeal ads were banned.
Now you are warned. If like me you watch some of these channels when you are bored, better send any monies you want to donate to Guka's WhiteKAP Fund (GWF).
It is a much more worthwhile use of your money than sending it to a malaya who claims that she was raped by 34 men and now has to attend clinics every two days.
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