Kenya adopting capitalism has meant that it’s a man eat man society. Conmen have been updating their game once they realize the current has little to know success in making people part with their money.
And now the latest con game involves sending messages to several people about where to guide them to send money. They know that someone somewhere must probably be about to send money to someone.
Like I got the messages below:
[ATTACH=full]326390[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=full]326391[/ATTACH]
Where do they get the numbers (my number) from?
That’s a question I also asked myself and after talking to several friends one of the possible places I came up with that these guys get their numbers from is m-pesa guys.
At first I thought it was a certain girl who must have thought I am still in the stage of a beta male and I’ll send her fare/ credit money or just money until I realized these are conmen am dealing with.
People are broke, jobless in Kenya and conmen are all just over around us. Ukisleki kidogo au uingie box these guys are always gonna eat you alive
And someone can always fell prey to these conmen and be determined to follow up on these guys through the police but that’s an expensive affair and also the thought of dealing with these corrupt incompetent greedy lazy polices just makes one to give up already
Inakuanga Manzi ako na connection na majamaa wanafanya izi scheme… They are both in on it. They already know you can easily send like 5k without problems…
Kuna time nilipata ingine inasema, dorm ya kijana imechomeka ni time amount ya kununua basics to some number… Niki reply to hio number… ambia kijana akae ngumu ka ngumo… Bastards never give up.
Criminals buy those MPesa books of theirs where they note down customer details and they target numbers that make large/frequent transactions. That’s how they get your number.
i dont usually understand however kama sina pesa mpesa sipatagi those messages. Lakini small moneys zikiingia mpesa huwa zinafuatana na text ya nitumie kwa hii number…
Report to 333
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[li]When you receive suspicious and fake messages forward the numbers via SMS to 333. This message is free.[/li][li]Notify Safaricom of imposters and suspicious branded links/websites/social media handles. Do not share any personal details with anyo[/ul].[/li][/QUOTE]
Always forward to 333.
In addition to this, from Android 8 upwards you can block and report such SMSs as spam pamoja na zile za gambling. This helps Google recognise it as spam for other users.
At least from Android 9 if I recall correctly allows permissions fine tuning.
People install random sht from anywhere halafu mtu anakuambia my phone was hacked, phone yangu iko slow, bundles zangu zinaisha instantly, battery yangu haiweki moto, phone yangu injiunlock screen, bla bla bla…
The old mpesa books captured all those details but the new ones don’t indivate the number.
I suspect that criminals could be getting pgone and ID numbers from those books that one has to fill at the entrances of many buildings. At some buildings you have to leave a copy of your original ID. The underpaid security guards can be compromised to take photos of the treasure trove.
Always make sure to give one or two wrong digits of your phone number.
I usually give out a land-line number we had plus my previous/expired passport number.
I also suspects that they might be colluding with some rogue sufferincon employs coz as one of us has mentioned above, what coincidence is there that when you get deposited or sent some cash then all of a sudden those Nitumie kwa hii number SMSes starts coming? How can we explain that?