A lot of people are venturing into gold mining for the first time and our group has a well knit community of miners. We have over 8.000 members on our whatsapp platforms in various groups such as mining, poultry, real estate, agriculture, education, dog breeding, cross border opportunities, paw paw growing, education, contruction, digital marketing and more.
The free flow of information makes our platform rich in terms of information and opportunities. Few opportunities emerge from Zim without our members discussing about them first. From our mining group we have various people who have lost various amounts of money ranging from US$600-$800 by engaging a bogus geologist for mine surveys.
The gentleman has survey equipment and actually visits your mine with a team of ‘experts’who will do surveys with equipment but after leaving no meaningful report ever comes your way. Those who press him for reports either get fake reports or he can be rude to you.
As a result, we have advised our members to make a police report and take the bogus geologist to court. Have you also been scammed? Kindly get in touch with our forum and you can discuss with other miners who lost funds.
For future engagement of geologists do take the following steps;
Ask for a consultant’s cv and references.
Go to the underground and check with at least 4 references. Be careful of fake references though.
Ask from our group whether a consultant is genuine or not and hundreds of our members will assist.
If you are in the diaspora, we urge you not to put monies in the mining sector unless you are on the ground!
Scammers are no longer those who ask for money upfront in dubious investment deals. They are now sophisticated with some coming as service providers! Do check the latest post on how poultry farmers are losing chickens to voice cloning scammers. We have covered this on our Facebook Page.
