Student Shoots Self Over Collapsed E-Creator Scam
The people he made join E-CREATOR came too hard on him.
Zimbabwean student has taken his own life after shooting himself with a gun over his involvement in the E-Creator scam, according to his close relative Tekina.
E-Creator was a company that claimed to help people make money by posting fake positive reviews on e-commerce sites globally. It was exposed as a scam in July 2023, when it shut down abruptly and allegedly fled with over US$1 million of its members’ money.
Tekina posted on social media that his cousin Ngoni, a 1.2 student, shot himself twice after being pressured by the people he made join E-Creator.
It’s a sad day for us, Ngoni a 1.2 student shot himself twice. Now he is dead. The people he made join E-CREATOR came too hard on him.
E-Creator was launched in April 2023 and claimed to be a Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) company that partnered with e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Alibaba, and Jumia.
It offered various packages that required members to pay a registration fee ranging from US$15 to US$300 and then post reviews on products sold on these platforms.
E-Creator collapsed in July 2023, after two months of operation. It announced on its Facebook page that it had closed down due to the disappearance of its founder, Zhao Jiaotong, who was a Chinese national.
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It claimed that Zhao had withdrawn all the company funds through EcoCash agents and was planning to leave Zimbabwe with over US$1 million. It urged its members to find him and recover their money.
