Somizi is not giving away R100k

A few Facebook users have been made the joke of the Twitter streets after falling for Somizi Mhlongo’s fake Facebook page promising 50 users R100 000.

The page, Somizi Mhlongo Official – Somgaga, has been posting statuses and pictures of the Idols SA judge and choreographer that were taken from his Instagram account. The page tries to post what Somizi would say, and to an unsuspecting eye, it looks like it came straight from the horse’s mouth.

However, the page took it a step too far after posting a picture of Somizi sitting on his BMW i8, and claimed to be giving away R50 000 to “50 lucky members”.

All they have to do is to share the post “as much as they can”, like the page and the comment “done”, and shem, people have been sharing and commenting. Who wouldn’t do it for R100 000? Winners will be announced on December 30, it claims.

“I’m paying it forward,” fake Somizi writes on the post.

The post has more than 7 000 comments, and has been shared more than 26 000 times, with people hoping to win the money. The page has 33 242 followers so far, which might increase as people keep sharing the post.

The real Somizi shared a screenshot of the post on Twitter to tell his followers the page was fake, and Twitter had a field day.

Fake page fake account pic.twitter.com/VXiyH6xLx2

— somizi somGAGA (@somizi) August 27, 2017

These were some of the comments on Twitter:

“Mina I am just amazed by those busy commenting yathandwa imali emzansi 100K pho.”

“Some people don’t have a life nje yazi. So you decide to take time and create an account and type all that? Could have used that time wisely.”

“I Knew It Immediately.Somizi Doesn’t Give Away Money For Nothing love u SomG.”

“I am waiting for my 100K in December.”

“I still don’t get why people open fake pages though mxm.”

“Thank you…. thought as much!”

“I don’t know how one shares a post as much as they want.”

“I was wondering WTF was going on, Somizi blessing us with 100k imagine, smh.”