{"id":1184030,"date":"2022-08-19T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/i-will-hate-myself-for-a-long-time-tonto-dikeh-says-after-a-scam-stops-her-from-helping-fan\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:36:17","slug":"i-will-hate-myself-for-a-long-time-tonto-dikeh-says-after-a-scam-stops-her-from-helping-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/i-will-hate-myself-for-a-long-time-tonto-dikeh-says-after-a-scam-stops-her-from-helping-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"I will hate myself for a long time &#8211; Tonto Dikeh says after a scam stops her from helping fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"I will hate myself for a long time - Tonto Dikeh says after a scam stops her from helping fan\" title=\"I will hate myself for a long time - Tonto Dikeh says after a scam stops her from helping fan\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Actress and politician Tonto Dokeh is disappointed in herself after she failed to help a fan in need because of a scam.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, some weeks ago a fan reached out to her to help in footing the medical bills of their child.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Instagram, Tonto Dikeh revealed that the supposed fan sent her picture proof among others which touched her to help as much as she could.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that she offered the person nearly half a million naira to take care of the bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tonto Dikeh said she felt the need to revisit the page of this fan after sending the money only to see it was deleted along with all the photos.<\/p>\n<p>A hurt Tonto Dikeh has resolved to not give mind to some of these posts lest she is scammed again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so pissed, I felt used and taken for granted but I moved on,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, a few days ago, the actress said that a mother reached out to her, who had a similar issue \u2013 her son was sick and needed help.<\/p>\n<p>Tonto Dokeh said she ignored the messages and deleted them, thinking it was another scam. But, she stated that 24 hours after receiving the message, the mum reached out once again informing him that her son had passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy eyes hurt from crying. My heart aches so bad. I will hate myself for a very long time\u2026 See the amount of damage one person\u2019s lies and choices have caused\u2026 My heart goes out to everyone going thru one thing or the other,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Tonto Dikeh stated that this is an experience that is not one that she will easily forget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will beat myself up for this for as long as I stop feeling guilt but the person who made me ignore that message I pray you suffer more than the grieving mothers,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/ChWOSCNoqU1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/i-will-hate-myself-for-a-long-time-tonto-dikeh-says-after-a-scam-stops-her-from-helping-fan\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress and politician Tonto Dokeh is disappointed in herself after she failed to help a fan in need because of a scam. According to her, some weeks ago a fan reached out to her to help in footing the medical bills of their child. Taking to Instagram, Tonto Dikeh revealed that the supposed fan sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[887,144,10811,6222,2406,2352,1819,521,891],"class_list":["post-1184030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dikeh","tag-fan","tag-hate","tag-helping","tag-long","tag-scam","tag-stops","tag-time","tag-tonto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}