November 21, 2025 • 7 mins
Keke wants to know if she's getting scammed after someone reached out to her to make her wedding dress!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:36):
Have you guys ever been scammed like I'm talking about,
like bigtime scammed?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Have you ha?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Has it ever happened?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Because in this this wedding planning process, as I'm booking vendors,
you know, trying to do collabse, trying to work with
different people. Oh, I feel like everything is it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Could be a scam, might be a scam.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Because a lot of people they want their money up front,
you know, and I'm not really a money upfront type
of girl.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, especially you got to have the money to give
it up front, which is that that's usually my issue
with with money upfront is oh so I needed now.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Then yeah, oh okay, And so I've been talking.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I thought I had until twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, and that's how I feel because the wedding is
not until twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So I'm like, wait a minute, you won't you want
all this.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Money up front?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Like what something could happen to you tomorrow and I
never see my money again. You know, I'm nervous about
the whole process, and I'm just trying to avoid being scammed.
And I was talking to my friends earlier this week
and they had these horrible stories about being scammed from
businesses that they invested in, and you know, just trusting
people with money. And I'm like, are people like how
(01:42):
have you been? Has this happened to y'all?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Isn't usually a deposit, Like I'm the full money up
front is crazy? And a lot of them do just
want deposits.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Have the deposits because we're talking about weddings a thousands
of dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You know, how can you.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Buy insurance for this? Can't you buy wedding insurance? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Really, I think you can. I think I read it
about that that Raleigh wedding and that venue. I don't
even know if that was a result, but remember we
talked about that, uh and how they got you know,
the groom or the fiance. The groom passed away and
then they didn't get any money back.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
And again I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
If that's been rectified, but as you know, a few
weeks ago, they were just out the money, right, And
I think that I read somewhere that you could get
wedding insurance, ok yeah, which might be worth it just
in case, right.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I wonder how that works though, Like, so you can
they're saying, I don't like insurance at all.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, that'll be a problem with you.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, I think it's like I'm sure it's that you're
covered up to a certain amount or something if something happens,
but I'm not sure what the terms are.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
For instance, this lady reached out to me and she
wants to collab on making my wedding dress.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
But she's in Africa, so right, right, do you like measure?
I mean, so we've been talking over zoom.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
She's going to look at a picture of you. I
got it.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
No, I'll go get measured here, send her the measurements,
and like we have these zoom meetings. Like she's calling
me at ten o'clock at night because of the time difference,
and I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
How did you find out about this person?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
She reached out to me? What's in it for her
over in Africa? I mean money?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
So like to get paid, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So she'll give me a discount on a dress, but
I need to be paid. The dress needs to be
paid in full before they will ship the dress. And
I'm like, this feels a little scammy.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And she reached out to you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Did I don't know?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I'm just like, while we scamming each other.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Like come on, man, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I wouldn't. I don't know if you know you ever scammed?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Was I ever scammed? You were.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Like that?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
On any digital money sharing platform. Because she's tried to
quote money around before and it didn't work.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Out, I choose to stay quiet of situations that I don't,
you know, want to put myself in. But you know, I, uh, yeah,
I've been scammed, actually I have. This is a really
dumb story. It's not even that make She had a
serious so all my friends when we were younger, we
got I ds. I'm gonna just say that, right, we
got some d's, Okay, may.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Or may not have had accurate information, accurate information on them.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You're saying, no, the guy never he took my money,
but I never got mine.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I never got mine.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I messaged him and it wasn't It wasn't good. So
I left it alone.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I was like, you know what came a little hundred
dollars crusty, You're fine, Like I don't. I'm gonna argue
with you about it. So that was my only scam.
Now after that, you know, things have happened. I've been
involved in stuff, but it wasn't bad. I would never
scam anybody personally.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That would make me nervous too, to give to get
people lots and lots of money, you know, ahead of time,
knowing that eighteen months from now is when I claim it,
you know exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And people are making a good someone made a good
point on the text. They say, key, key, they don't
want to get scammed by you or you're canceled wedding.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That could be true, right, and the deposit I get
right because if I'm saying to you, I'm going to
be available on November twenty first to twenty twenty six,
and then you change your mind, and then you know,
we get I don't know, several months away, and now
I can't feel that date understand that. But I see
well and I don't understand in the case of someone dying,
(05:05):
I mean, if they're extenuating circumstances, I would hope that
somebody would work with me, like things that were completely
out of my control, right, But if you just change
your mind, or you guys break up, or you decide
I want to go with somebody else, that's not my problem.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, the event, the event is happening, with or without
the event, I would jar rule is already booked, is happening,
so they can maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
A celebration of you either way.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
So I'm just like, this whole thing is just a
it's a very scary feeling though, because it's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Everything is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I remember when I was really pretty young, I mean
probably like eight nine, we had a babysitter and she
lived near the house, and so like my parents would
go to dinner and sometimes we'd go to dinner. You know,
they'd be like, go get pizza or something, and then
sometimes we'd go to like her parents' house and she
lived with her boyfriend, and her boyfriend was a wedding DJ.
(05:52):
And I don't know why I remember this, I mean,
all these years later, but he used to let me
play with the equipment, like because I liked radio and
music stuff and you know, so I used to like
be and I'm sure that was really great for everyone
in the house to hear me try and like span
at eight years old. But he was trying to teach
me and whatever. So we go over there. It was
a Saturday night, my parents were on a date, and
I'm doing this stuff and I remember, I don't know
(06:12):
why I remember this so vividly, but the nanny or
babysitter's dad walks in and goes, hey, man, don't you
have a wedding tonight? And he goes, yeah, I'm not
going what he just didn't go. He just he was
the wedding DJ for someone's wedding and he just didn't go.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And at the time, I'm like, that's weird, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And I remember telling my parents that and they were like,
do you have any ida, Like of course I did,
and I don't think I've been to a wedding before,
but like the entertainment just didn't show Can you imagine,
Oh and this dude just wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I would be deva.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean you don't you get sued for something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I mean, can you the day of your wedding and
you're getting everything ready and like the music just doesn't show.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Up right, Like you cannot You cannot play with people
on their wedding day, Like hairstyle is makeup artists the past.
Everybody needs to be information or else I will come
to your house.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, and I suppose now, all these years later, I mean,
worst case we could we could plug some speakers in
and get someone's playlist going. At least there'd be a vibe.
Now I'm not saying that's that's not a substitute, but
like then, yeah, I mean this was in the nineties,
Like what were you what are you gonna do? Like
get someone's case logic CD thing out and like sit there,
and I mean there was there was really no alternative.
(07:22):
Turn the radio one, yeah, he skipping turn the radio
for our medium. But yeah, no, I don't I just
remember I don't know why I remember that so vividly.
But now every time I think about like people planning weddings,
I'm like, dude, somebody could just not show up. It's
so crazy and that's gonna kill your business now, especially
because now you've got all the Google reviews and everything's
so much more public now. But at the time, these
poor people, these poor people don't have a wedding view.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Ta
This is the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Dame is taking over Las Vegas this January for his
seven Night Presidents. He a Dooby Live at Park MGM,
and we've got a trip for two to the January
twenty fifth show to night Hotel State Park MGM January
twenty fourth through the twenty sixth and round trip airfare.
Text dusk to three seven three three seven now for
a chance to win. A confirmation text will be said.
(00:22):
Standard message of data rates may apply. All thanks to
Live Nation I'm telling about.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
These are the radio blogs on the Fread Show.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We are running in our diaries, except we say them aloud.
We call them blogs.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Ki ki go, all right, thank you dear blog.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Have you guys ever been scammed like I'm talking about,
like bigtime scammed?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Have you ha?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Has it ever happened?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Because in this this wedding planning process, as I'm booking vendors,
you know, trying to do collabse, trying to work with
different people. Oh, I feel like everything is it.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Could be a scam, might be a scam.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Because a lot of people they want their money up front,
you know, and I'm not really a money upfront type
of girl.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, especially you got to have the money to give
it up front, which is that that's usually my issue
with with money upfront is oh so I needed now.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Then yeah, oh okay, And so I've been talking.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I thought I had until twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, and that's how I feel because the wedding is
not until twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So I'm like, wait a minute, you won't you want
all this.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Money up front?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Like what something could happen to you tomorrow and I
never see my money again. You know, I'm nervous about
the whole process, and I'm just trying to avoid being scammed.
And I was talking to my friends earlier this week
and they had these horrible stories about being scammed from
businesses that they invested in, and you know, just trusting
people with money. And I'm like, are people like how
(01:42):
have you been? Has this happened to y'all?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Isn't usually a deposit, Like I'm the full money up
front is crazy? And a lot of them do just
want deposits.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Have the deposits because we're talking about weddings a thousands
of dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You know, how can you.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Buy insurance for this? Can't you buy wedding insurance? Oh?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Really, I think you can. I think I read it
about that that Raleigh wedding and that venue. I don't
even know if that was a result, but remember we
talked about that, uh and how they got you know,
the groom or the fiance. The groom passed away and
then they didn't get any money back.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
And again I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
If that's been rectified, but as you know, a few
weeks ago, they were just out the money, right, And
I think that I read somewhere that you could get
wedding insurance, ok yeah, which might be worth it just
in case, right.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I wonder how that works though, Like, so you can
they're saying, I don't like insurance at all.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, that'll be a problem with you.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, I think it's like I'm sure it's that you're
covered up to a certain amount or something if something happens,
but I'm not sure what the terms are.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
For instance, this lady reached out to me and she
wants to collab on making my wedding dress.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
But she's in Africa, so right, right, do you like measure?
I mean, so we've been talking over zoom.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
She's going to look at a picture of you. I
got it.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
No, I'll go get measured here, send her the measurements,
and like we have these zoom meetings. Like she's calling
me at ten o'clock at night because of the time difference,
and I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
How did you find out about this person?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
She reached out to me? What's in it for her
over in Africa? I mean money?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
So like to get paid, that's right.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So she'll give me a discount on a dress, but
I need to be paid. The dress needs to be
paid in full before they will ship the dress. And
I'm like, this feels a little scammy.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And she reached out to you.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Did I don't know?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I'm just like, while we scamming each other.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Like come on, man, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I wouldn't. I don't know if you know you ever scammed?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Was I ever scammed? You were.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Like that?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
On any digital money sharing platform. Because she's tried to
quote money around before and it didn't work.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Out, I choose to stay quiet of situations that I don't,
you know, want to put myself in. But you know, I, uh, yeah,
I've been scammed, actually I have. This is a really
dumb story. It's not even that make She had a
serious so all my friends when we were younger, we
got I ds. I'm gonna just say that, right, we
got some d's, Okay, may.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Or may not have had accurate information, accurate information on them.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You're saying, no, the guy never he took my money,
but I never got mine.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I never got mine.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I messaged him and it wasn't It wasn't good. So
I left it alone.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I was like, you know what came a little hundred
dollars crusty, You're fine, Like I don't. I'm gonna argue
with you about it. So that was my only scam.
Now after that, you know, things have happened. I've been
involved in stuff, but it wasn't bad. I would never
scam anybody personally.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
That would make me nervous too, to give to get
people lots and lots of money, you know, ahead of time,
knowing that eighteen months from now is when I claim it,
you know exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And people are making a good someone made a good
point on the text. They say, key, key, they don't
want to get scammed by you or you're canceled wedding.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That could be true, right, and the deposit I get
right because if I'm saying to you, I'm going to
be available on November twenty first to twenty twenty six,
and then you change your mind, and then you know,
we get I don't know, several months away, and now
I can't feel that date understand that. But I see
well and I don't understand in the case of someone dying,
(05:05):
I mean, if they're extenuating circumstances, I would hope that
somebody would work with me, like things that were completely
out of my control, right, But if you just change
your mind, or you guys break up, or you decide
I want to go with somebody else, that's not my problem.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, the event, the event is happening, with or without
the event, I would jar rule is already booked, is happening,
so they can maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
A celebration of you either way.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
So I'm just like, this whole thing is just a
it's a very scary feeling though, because it's so expensive.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Everything is.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I remember when I was really pretty young, I mean
probably like eight nine, we had a babysitter and she
lived near the house, and so like my parents would
go to dinner and sometimes we'd go to dinner. You know,
they'd be like, go get pizza or something, and then
sometimes we'd go to like her parents' house and she
lived with her boyfriend, and her boyfriend was a wedding DJ.
(05:52):
And I don't know why I remember this, I mean,
all these years later, but he used to let me
play with the equipment, like because I liked radio and
music stuff and you know, so I used to like
be and I'm sure that was really great for everyone
in the house to hear me try and like span
at eight years old. But he was trying to teach
me and whatever. So we go over there. It was
a Saturday night, my parents were on a date, and
I'm doing this stuff and I remember, I don't know
(06:12):
why I remember this so vividly, but the nanny or
babysitter's dad walks in and goes, hey, man, don't you
have a wedding tonight? And he goes, yeah, I'm not
going what he just didn't go. He just he was
the wedding DJ for someone's wedding and he just didn't go.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And at the time, I'm like, that's weird, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
And I remember telling my parents that and they were like,
do you have any ida, Like of course I did,
and I don't think I've been to a wedding before,
but like the entertainment just didn't show Can you imagine,
Oh and this dude just wasn't feeling it.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I would be deva.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I mean you don't you get sued for something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I mean, can you the day of your wedding and
you're getting everything ready and like the music just doesn't show.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Up right, Like you cannot You cannot play with people
on their wedding day, Like hairstyle is makeup artists the past.
Everybody needs to be information or else I will come
to your house.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, and I suppose now, all these years later, I mean,
worst case we could we could plug some speakers in
and get someone's playlist going. At least there'd be a vibe.
Now I'm not saying that's that's not a substitute, but
like then, yeah, I mean this was in the nineties,
Like what were you what are you gonna do? Like
get someone's case logic CD thing out and like sit there,
and I mean there was there was really no alternative.
(07:22):
Turn the radio one, yeah, he skipping turn the radio
for our medium. But yeah, no, I don't I just
remember I don't know why I remember that so vividly.
But now every time I think about like people planning weddings,
I'm like, dude, somebody could just not show up. It's
so crazy and that's gonna kill your business now, especially
because now you've got all the Google reviews and everything's
so much more public now. But at the time, these
poor people, these poor people don't have a wedding view.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Ta
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