Chirara twins, Craig and Carel, who are based in the Netherlands, have been exposed on a Zimbabwean community platform on Reddit. They are being accused of scamming several people, including some of their own friends and former schoolmates from Zimbabwe.
Carel attended St John's College and Craig attended St George's College, where they both completed high school in 2016.
According to the allegations, they usually target old friends. After reconnecting with them, they ask to borrow money and promise to pay it back. However, once they receive the money, they start giving excuses and avoid repaying it.
One of the alleged victims shared: I can share my story with the twins. I got scammed too. I knew them from back in high school in Harare. Carel was my friend. Moved to NL for studies. One day Craig added me on Instagram, so I asked him to connect me with his brother. Coincidentally, I happened to be moving to Rotterdam too.
When I moved here, they greeted me and my partner with open arms, inviting us over to their place and telling us stories about their lives over the years we had been disconnected (most of which are probably lies now in retrospect). They really emphasized how happy they were to have people they knew from back home in their lives, community and such.
After that, we ended up seeing them quite often. They introduced me to their friends and made an effort to show off their lifestyle, etc. One day, similar to the others, I got a phone call from Carel telling me a story about issues with his international account. He needed money transferred to his account and said he would give me cash. Luckily, it was only €600.
I agreed because I thought I was helping my friend of 12 years out. And who would try to dodge paying back a friend who knows where they live?
So I waited for the transfer for over a week. To be honest, I regretted it the minute I sent the money, but I thought, “He's my friend, I should be able to trust him.” It was then that Reddit posts from others who had similar experiences started appearing, along with a mysterious website exposing them. The moment I realised how badly I had messed up was when my friend, a successful programmer whom I had introduced to them once, gave me a call.
He said Craig had called him, claiming he had been hacked and needed assistance. He then went on to ask him for €400. He also revealed that they had called him every few months after I introduced him to them, asking whether he wanted to work for their company and invest in a stake. After that, I went through social media trying to find every person they had ever introduced me to, and I was shocked to discover that they had all had similar experiences.
It's horrifying to see two young Zimbabwean men with so much potential waste it this way. Shame on you!
That's the difference between men of old and the modern man
When most of you were birthed, your father's weren't even present, they were busy working. Because that's the most important thing a father can do for his wife and child - to work
What's the point of a man being present at the birth of a child? Standing outside the maternity ward just pacing around like a mad man. Or let's say you even get inside, what can you possibly do besides hold her hand, saying "push" as if the nurses can't do that
This is the World Cup, it's your country at war with other nations. You're no different from a soldier on the frontlines saying I need to be excused so I can go see my wife giving birth
This is the current state of modern men, just emotional decisions, to appear good to a female biased society OVER their duty.
@teemadzika I literally train AI models, and trust me, if they were using 25+ songs per artist, the model would be dropping better bars than half of Twitter
@Cde_begar@stunnerzim Mwari vakakusika vachida kuona zvakaita munhu akadzungaira🤦🏿her sister is the one married to CM not madhisinyongoro aukutaura aya, kabius