Humorous Anecdotes, Observations & Accounts of Marathon Running & Agile Adventures.
I am a well-trained husband. It’s taken the better part of 20 years but I am now mostly domesticated and largely housebroken.
My wife Kathy ran the 2007 Down run. I seconded her that year. It was hard work and a stressful job. She got out of running the 2008 Up run (just before doing her long run I should add) by falling pregnant. Kathy ran several more marathons and Two Oceans ultras but never felt the urge to return to Comrades.
With unprecedented demand and road running race entries selling out across the country scammers are having a field day fleecing runners desperate for entries.
It is difficult to know whether all the scamming is done by one person using different numbers or whether there are multiple scammers. Some numbers definitely belong to the same person and there is at least one number, 0738823545, that has been in use for over six years. It is also difficult to estimate how many people have been scammed over the years but the number of victims is likely in the thousands.
Continue reading “Anatomy of a Scam (An investigation into race entry scamming)”
With the proliferation of race entry scamming I asked Demitri Baroutsos, group admin of the popular Cape Town Runners Community, for his advice and insights on how to prevent being a race entry scamming victim.
Below is a list of South African mobile numbers confirmed to be involved in race entry scamming. Their modus operandi is to create fake profiles on Facebook so there is no point in listing the names as they are fake and will keep changing.
This list will be updated as new scamming numbers emerge – feel free to email me on therunningmann@gmail.com or DM on my social media profiles with scammer details.
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