Nasty C lifts the lid on R30k 'feature' scam

20 December 2016 - 14:28 By TshisaLIVE
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Nasty C has warned his followers of a scammer who is using the rapper's name to try and con fans out of their hard-earned cash.

The conman had apparently been posing as Nasty C and quoted fans as much as R30,000 for a feature.

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Taking to Twitter recently, the rapper uploaded screenshots of conversations between the conman and his potential victims.

The messages showed the scammer asking for money and trying to arrange meetings with interested fans.

Nasty C told his followers not to "get played" by the scam and warned that it "might not end well".</p><p =""><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">For the few ppl that think they have my number.. please don't get played by whoever you're really talking to. Might not end well. Ff tweets</p> — Nasty_C (@Nasty_CSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/Nasty_CSA/status/810067867018334209">December 17, 2016</a></blockquote><p> He did not indicate whether he intends to take any action against the scammer.</p><p>Nasty C's warning came only days after rapper Emtee told <em>TshisaLIVE</em> that he believed his phone number had been sold to fans online. He said that he had been inundated with phone calls at all hours of the day.</p><ul><li><strong><relation source="ece-auto-gen" sourceid="5058a7b4-7db5-4eeb-972f-e4ee6f6ab973" ="http://.escenic.com/2009/import"><field name="title">Emtee is on a war path: 'I will find the person selling my number online'</field><field name="summary">Rapper Emtee is spitting mad after discovering that a person has been selling his phone number to fans online.</field></relation> </strong></li></ul><p>"One day, I asked this person where they got my number. They said they found it on my social media. They were lying to me. I threatened them until they told me that a person had been selling my number on social media in exchange for things," Emtee explained.</p></p>

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