Unveiled: Another Victim Of Globacom’s Win A Trip To Dubai Fraudulent Promo

*“I Had To Sell My Deep Freezer To Procure International Passport …”

*Folashade Adediran Omoemi Laments

As the series on Telecommunications Services Provider, Globacom’s "Win A Trip To Dubai" Fraudulent Promotion conducted in September, 2011, continues on this blog, we present to you the second out of four established victims of the monumental sleaze perpetrated by a Nigerian owned company against fellow Nigerians. The story of Folashade Adediran Omoemi who is based in Oshogbo, Osun state, is a little more disturbing than that of Lasisi Alliu Olasunkanmi that you read in the first episode of this journalistic soap opera. According to Folashade in an exclusive interview with this blogger, when Globacom first made their “useless” phone call to her with their customized 121 phone number, she initially wanted to disregard the “unsolicited” information given to her by the caller that she had won an all expense paid trip to Dubai, as a prank from the ubiquitous fraudsters that are currently dominating the Nigerian landscape (how right she was after all!). But after she was duly convinced by her caller that he was genuinely calling from Globacom, she believed him.

And that was when her “ordeal” began. Since she was told she needed an International passport to process her winnings, which she did not have at that point in time, she had to sell the deep freeze with which she was doing petty trading of soft-drinks in her small shop in Oshogbo to procure an "express" (fast-tracked) International passport before she could travel down to Lagos for the proccessing of her travelling to Dubai through Glo. But alas, it turned out to be a fraud that she initially suspected. As a matter of fact, she had to travel twice risking her life on the accident-prone Nigerian roads. The first time was to Lagos and the second time was to Ibadan as directed by the Glo official relating with her, Mr. Wole Bankole. An enquiry at the Glo office by this blogger has revealed that Mr. Bankole is still working with Glo.

Meanwhile, after she had been deceived into letting her picture be used in some national dailies by Glo, like many other victims of the grand fraud, through the presentation of dummy flight tickets to them, communication was deliberately cut off with her by Mr. Bankole like he did in the case of Lasisi Alliu Olasunkanmi you read earlier on this blog. Of more disturbing proportion is the finding at Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)’s Lagos Zonal office few days back that cases like that emanating from one promo or the other abound against Glo. And that none like that has been brought against other telephone networks in the country. No wonder Folashade had to abandon the Glo line she was using after the frustration she got from them, for two years and still counting, in the course of processing her winnings. Is Glo really "unlimited" like their new advertising slogan states? Someone needs to provide answers fast.

Watch out for other victims of the Globacom’s Fraud Unlimited Promo stories in these series. It promises to be a soap opera of sort…