Woman left with only 4 eggs to her name after Kenyan boyfriend scam

As people get older, they begin searching for true love, a lifelong partner, and a partner with whom they can establish a home and spend the rest of their lives. The search for love has been engineered to be right at your fingertips thanks to technology, social media, and the internet.

For individuals hoping to find their future companions, online dating services have become more popular

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However, there is always a downside to everything, and using online dating services comes with a significant risk of running into scammers who want to use you and leave you. This is exactly what happened to an unsuspecting woman from Kwazulu-Natal (KZN)

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According to Squad Magazine, Sithembile Duma, a 51-year-old woman from KZN fell head over heels for her Kenyan boyfriend who she met on the dating site Badoo. She was persuaded by her boyfriend to quit her work in the City of Joburg and scammed her R420 000 layouts, leaving her homeless and with just four eggs to her name.

The dating scene can be tricky, just a few weeks back, South Africa woke up to a sexually explicit video of a  top South African legislator, Zanele Sifuba, who accused her Nigerian Governor boyfriend, Douye Diri, of leaking her sex tape

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