Shakespeare said that man has two faces, one given to him by God and the other he made by himself. This is a typical example of the recent most virile social media incident of one young lady, Zarah Mansur who was impersonated by a 25 year old Musa Lurwanu. And has been mining huge amount of money from invididuals and organizations until his arrest. Social media platforms were his conductors of his deceptiveness and conningly way of making money illegally.
"Catfish" or rather "catfishing" has been a major cyber aproach to social crime such as faking relationship or even blackmail. Catfish simply means a hoax social media account used to deceive others into unreal relationships or play with their psychological emotions. Mr. Lurwanu is one of them behind the face of Zarah, using her beauty and academic qualifications to juice out money from his preys online. She only came to realise the event after so many people were dopped.
The reality is, whenever this happens, some innocent-like men seem to be the scapegoats. The thing with emotion is it doesn't choose personality to melt on but one should absolutely control his urge and even if it becomes necessary to lust, it should be on physical contact -- not on social media applications. In the trending video, one victim was called on the phone and he testified of given N20,1000 to Zarah but Mr. Rilwanu said he gave him the money for the quest to satiate his libido!
One of the famous social media handlers, Bulama Bukarti also twitted that his company or associates was deprived into giving N20,600 on a project they wanted to execute in Uganda; believing based on the online CV of Zarah using that she once resided there during her Bachelors.
Base on his confession, Mr. Musa Lurwanu said he was using a Voice App which made him sound exaclty a female while talking on the phone with his callers. This was as a result of some who were desperate to know whether he was the real Zarah. He is now in Nigeria Police custody in Kano state and are thoroughly doing proper investigation. I hope this would be a deterrent to other so eager to fall in love with the person they have never set their eye on.
Written by Aliyu Ibrahim
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