Gogo Maweni is spitting venom after she caught a scammer red-handed in her Durban store. The celebrity sangoma says the woman has been scamming her store for a while before she was caught. Speaking to ZiMoja, Maweni whose real name is Makgotso Lee-Ann Makopo says the alleged scammer has been ordering products and using fake invoices as proof of payment. "She would often order when I am out of the country because she knew my staff would not be able to get hold of me to confirm the payments," she said.

SHE MESSED WITH THE WRONG PERSON 

But this week, the alleged criminal dipped her hands in the wrong cookie jar after she tried to order products worth R4 500. "Lucky I am in Durban this week and when she ordered, I happened to be at the store,". Gogo Maweni says quickly realised that it was the same lady who has been scamming her. "Initially she came to collect but when her cash did not reflect, my staff member told her she can't take the products. After noticing that she could be the same client who has been scamming me, I called and told her her products are ready not aware that I have already alerted the police," Maweni said, adding that when the woman arrived at the store, she asked her why she was scamming her. According to Maweni, the woman started crying and telling me that she is struggling and had to support her kids and that she needed the products to cleanse herself as she sleeps with multiple men for money. "She claims that she is a prostitute and therefore she needs my product to cleanse the different spirits and she also wanted something to bring her money, but I still don't believe her, I think she was reselling or rebranding my products as hers," she adds. Maweni says the woman has defrauded her of products worth R49 000.

SHE DOES NOT MIND RESELLERS

Gogo Maweni says she doesn't mind people buying her products in bulk and reselling them. "In fact, I could have given them a bigger and better deal, but scamming me and thinking you will get away with it, forget," she says. Earlier this year Maweni says she nearly died when scammers used her identity to scam an old woman out of about R2.5 million using her name. "She came to my house with men including her uncle and they were ready to attack me. Luckily I could prove that the money was not paid to me. The old woman fainted because she has cashed out all her life savings," she says.KwaZulu Natal police spokesperson Constable Thenjiswa Ngcobo confirmed that the Durban Central police are investigating a case of fraud. "A 37-year-old woman alleged that between 17 October 2022 to 06 July 2023, she was frauded an undisclosed amount of money at her business premises at Dr. Pixley Kasem Street in Durban,' Ngcobo said