She was just thinking of what cloth to wear to the class and her phone rang, she checked the phone and it was an unidentified number, but who could this be? She wondered. She picked the call, ‘hello’ a male voice she didn’t recognized said ‘hi’. ‘Who is this?’ she asked quietly.
It’s me Frank, from your cousin in U.K. ‘Frank?’ Hasn’t he told you? I just came back from U.K and he sent me to drop some things for you. So where are you? Because I might be going back by next week. She was so curious because she never know who or what Frank was talking about, but she decided to play along and told him that she is in school.
‘But am in transit now and I will like you to do me a favour by sending me a N4500 MTN recharge card. I will be coming down to your school tomorrow to deliver the things to you’. She agreed to send it. My call interrupted her thought when I call to ask if she will coming for the lecture, she explained everything to me, knowing who they were, we made a game plan to send used cards worth the amount he requested for. After some minutes he called back to tell us that the numbers were not loading and we pretended until we make him waste his credit in calling.
One might think it’s only those who play lotto, poker, pool, baba jebu or play bets are gamblers but most of us do a bit of it once in a while; it’s just that money is not always the prize. When we fill data form of bogus promising sums sent to our mail box, when attempt those obnoxious texts promising jeep, generators and plasma T.V, we could get duped or give information about ourselves to stranger or thieves.
People who do things like these to people they do not know take a gamble and hope that they will connect with someone who will be interested with whatever they may be offering. We need to be careful because those who are looking for cheap success may often find fake success.
