How to Prevent Billing as a Legit Omo Boy

Surely, you have been billed before. And after you fell for it and the debit alert popped up on your phone, you must have muttered under your breath that billing is not for people like you wey sapa dey carry go where dem no know. You vowed to prevent billing again, only that you fell for the next trick.

Know this: As a legit omo boy hustling to make ends meet, billings will come but it is up to you to determine if those bills will ‘touch’ you or if they will fly over your head. 

If you don’t have the means to oblige and you don’t want to sink, here are a couple of things you can do to navigate the weekly demand of ‘urgent 2k’ successfully.

4 Sure Ways to Prevent Billing as a Legit Hustler

1. Except you are DJ Cuppy’s sibling, stop posting your flex all the time.

All those ‘we outside’ videos you post frequently are making it look like Nigeria is not happening to you. You’ll become a target for constant billing & your excuse will be watery when the people of the world are always seeing you drinking Azul in the club every Friday.

To get off that list of ‘nice men’ or to never get on it, jejely avoid posting your flexes and TGIF escapades. 

2. Confuse the thunder. Famz sapa once in a while.

You see how everybody is crying about sapa on their status? There are people on the lookout for those sapa hasn’t hooked, so they can bill them. If you don’t want to be billed, you too must cry sapa frequently so everyone can see that you are ‘in it’ together.

Even if it is just ‘sapa nice one’ once every two weeks, it will work so much that the next time a potential biller enters your DM, if you say sapa is choking you, they will believe you.

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3. Like Naira Marley, look away. Do not engage that status update!

Sometimes, the reasons people land in your DM to bill you is because you have consciously or subconsciously set yourself up for billing, knowingly or unknowingly.

‘I need an urgent favour’, ‘I’m craving…’

These are traps that billers use to lure the unsuspecting into giving them money. Do not engage. I repeat, do not engage! Just look away. It is a trap. Once you fall for it, best believe, na you go pay for the craving.

Even if you had wanted to check on the poster before that notification or status update, postpone your ‘check-up’ & never ask if they satisfied the cravings or not. Otherwise, your last card will go for it. Don’t fall for it. Jazzup!

4. Kala. Daju. Ma rerin. Go on ghost mode. Turn off read receipts.

Do you really want nothing to do with billing from other people? Take the easy way out and go on ghost mode once you sense any pre-billing conversations.

• If they have not checked up on you in a while & suddenly turn up in your DM one week to their birthday, ghost them!
• If they call you out of the blue with bedroom voice like you are their partners, ghost them!
• If they keep calling like you stole from them and you know they are chronic billers, ghost them! 
• If their answer to ‘how are you?’ is ‘I’m not fine’, ghost them. 

Keep ghosting, left and right. It will save you a lot of stress, and surely save your account balance too.

Certainly, billing no be for people wey sapa dey carry go where dem no know. What other methods do you use to shenk billers? Please, let us know in the comment section below.

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