An Okotokian is cautioning others of an apparent scam targetting local crafters.
Karin Nell, a local mother who’s lived in Okotoks for about a year, caught wind of a few upcoming youth markets back in January.
Thinking it was a good chance for her teenage daughter to sell some of her crocheted wares, she booked a table for the February market and was told tables were available for future events, including in October and November.
Nell ended up attending the February market alone after her daughter got sick.
“It all went well, aside from the fact that it was very quiet. They promised a lot of advertising, I don’t know if that happened, but it looked fine,” she says.
Nell also booked a table in a Christmas market planned for November with the same organizers.
She began to hear word of another market planned for High River that was cancelled, with a few participants looking to contact the organizer.
Eventually, she sought to get in touch with the organizers herself in order to pay for her table but found the emails she sent were bouncing back.
Looking to social media, she also discovered the event pages had been deleted, and that all traces of the organizers and the events had seemingly been wiped from the internet completely.
Nell posted to a local Facebook group asking if anyone knew what happened and received several replies from people with similar experiences.
“There were at least five market days that I know of that would have been…
