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I have been helping people until I came across a man who used his condition as a source of income.

There's this particular man I met while I was working before I went to university. One day as I dropped off my company bus, he approached me saying that he was a missionary and that he needed a transport fare back to his destination. I told him I didn't have money on me, which was true. On another occasion, I met him in the market, forgetting that we had met before, he used the same story of a missionary. I knew him better, so I just walked past him.

On one of the days while at university, I met him again with the same story after about a year or two. Later, after I'd finished university and was working, on my way back home, I burst into this acclaimed "missionary" again.

To my surprise, he was still in the same business. I exclaimed and laughed out loud. I asked him, sir, are you still doing this same business after many years? Back before I gained admission into the university, I graduated, and I am working? Wow! The man, knowing that I knew him, ran and disappeared from me.

From that time, I have really investigated people before helping them, because some people use being helpless or needing help as a business and so, instead of being a victim while trying to help, I make enquiries.

I have also heard of a woman who wanted to help another woman but the woman who needed help ended up stealing from the one who wanted to render help to her.

Before the helper becomes a victim, be sure people truly are helpless before rendering help to them.

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