M-Pesa no longer safe

Bigfish1 · July 20, 2018, 1:54pm

Kenyans we are a rotten lot. Even people with jobs don’t have satisfaction. They have to try all means to steal.
This greed has really brought Kenya down, so so low. Gone are the days when you could calm tell a foreigner you’re from Kenya proudly.

Gecko_Moriah · July 20, 2018, 2:21pm

Stop lying Soge king

El_Tucci · July 20, 2018, 2:39pm

The Mpesa/Safaricom bubble is about burst. We’re about to witness a massive data spillage. It’s no secret.
Y’all ain’t seen sh;t.
Self-destruction loading.

How do I know this? Well, it doesn’t matter.

Ras-Moat · July 20, 2018, 2:52pm

Jimit:

As to be expected of any Kenyan stuff that has hit, @M-Pesa is now riddled with cons and this time round, its an inside work. Safaricom employees are now colluding with cartels and conmen to swindle Kenyans their hard earned mulla. I almost fell into the trap but thank God, I got lucky, at least it wasn’t a huge amount.
So I withdrew 40k from an @Mpesa_Agent (calm your horses billionaires, we know you transact 70k daily). About 24hrs later, I cant make any calls or texts. The network bars are full, texts are sent but not delivered. Whenever I attempt to make a call, I get the message “calls barred”. On the other side, whenever a person tries to reach me, they are met by the message “The mobile number you are trying to reach is no longer in service” Panicking, I contacted customer. I was informed to go to the nearest Safcom Shop.
Well, at the shop my line was restored. I had to ask the agent what went wrong. Fraudulent activity. That someone had used my phone to contact other people to send them funny messages such as they’ve won some amount, or their line has been closed due to double registration blah blah blah. Well that was lies of course. My phone had stayed on my person all time, and even when I left it unattended there was passwords. Plus the logs didnt show anything like that. Anyway I brushed that off and dismissed that as error or something of that sort.
Problem began when I tried purchasing credit. I remembered I had left at least 1k in my mpesa account, but alas! It was clean. Zero. On checking the statement I found a funny transaction, with no transaction number, that a reversal had been done to a person named " @M-Pesa " on the day that the line was supposedly out of service. Inquiring from customer care, the fools/moron/meffis/mikundus/:meffi::meffi::mad::mad:they told me that the amount had been reversed to the sender who they couldn’t disclose his/her name.
I went to their facebook page to rant, where I met similar complaints. Got no more to say, the title sums it all up.

Brotherman… go check on something called sms spoofing then youl realise no man used your phone yet your number was used to send fake msgs as stated… I can basically call or text anyone with your number and thats it. dont blame them blame the technology the thieves are advancing wanaingia phd sasa. mtapata tabu sana

Adambole · July 20, 2018, 2:59pm

Received a similar call from some idiot informing me that my line has double registration, fortunately the line of questioning he adopted which questions I wasn’t answering gave him away. When I demanded to know the other person with the same line number he switched of the phone.

Shaka · July 20, 2018, 3:09pm

Received a call feom a no. Like 0720350000 and the message was like ‘huduma hii iko kwa lugha ya kingereza bonyeza moja upokee ujube…’ i told him to fuck off and left it for him to end it from his end when he would feel like

Mathaais · July 20, 2018, 4:28pm

I once asked on this forum how safe is the data mobile loan applicants are being asked to give to mobile loan companies eg Tala, Branch and others.
Knowing Kenyans penchant for stupidity and ignorance, you will find a person using a single password on all those platforms which effectively lends one a sitting duck.
The regulators are sleeping on the job,Tala and Branch supposedly evaluate the value of loan you qualify for based on your Mpesa transactions.
Honestly, how stupid can it get?

Buckets · July 21, 2018, 2:40am

Don’t be a dick. If I lose even 50 shillings to fraudsters I will complain. It’s not about the money; it’s about the fraud that is happening.

bouss · July 21, 2018, 3:35am

That’s the effect of new money. Suddenly you want to shout from the rooftop na kutukana ma - soldier.

Jimit · July 21, 2018, 4:22am

So that explains how cash from my mpesa got lost??

Yollo · July 21, 2018, 9:15am

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/07/21/safaricom-staff-jkuat-student-arrested-over-sim-card-fraud_c1790631

S_Lilly · July 21, 2018, 11:57am

At what stage is Telkom ke with it’s version of Mpesa app?

chebukatineza · July 21, 2018, 2:29pm

They swapped my lipa na mpesa biz line, was called by safcon to confirm whether everything is ok…they called again and again days later. Then i got curious and asked them what is…ndio nkaambiwa kuna fraudsters on the loose and that my line has been blah blah registered in a county in the farthest corner of the country…luckily the till number is only used for sms confirmation…na hapo ndio my billions ziliponea

chebukatineza · July 21, 2018, 2:45pm

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Ubongo · July 21, 2018, 6:15pm

We are quickly becoming vulnerable

Ras-Moat · July 22, 2018, 8:57am

yes plus mpesa employees on the go

Jimit · July 22, 2018, 12:29pm

FOH with your 1KB knowledge

nelo_angelo · July 22, 2018, 2:31pm

One thing we should learn is any networked tech can be hacked. So hii mambo ya kutrust wakina safcon 100% ni mistake.

Ras-Moat · July 22, 2018, 3:49pm

hehe Dimwit idiot unaibiwa pesa ka mtoto… we ndio umeenda loss sio mimi…

Ras-Moat · July 22, 2018, 3:50pm

Jimit:

As to be expected of any Kenyan stuff that has hit, @M-Pesa is now riddled with cons and this time round, its an inside work. Safaricom employees are now colluding with cartels and conmen to swindle Kenyans their hard earned mulla. I almost fell into the trap but thank God, I got lucky, at least it wasn’t a huge amount.
So I withdrew 40k from an @Mpesa_Agent (calm your horses billionaires, we know you transact 70k daily). About 24hrs later, I cant make any calls or texts. The network bars are full, texts are sent but not delivered. Whenever I attempt to make a call, I get the message “calls barred”. On the other side, whenever a person tries to reach me, they are met by the message “The mobile number you are trying to reach is no longer in service” Panicking, I contacted customer. I was informed to go to the nearest Safcom Shop.
Well, at the shop my line was restored. I had to ask the agent what went wrong. Fraudulent activity. That someone had used my phone to contact other people to send them funny messages such as they’ve won some amount, or their line has been closed due to double registration blah blah blah. Well that was lies of course. My phone had stayed on my person all time, and even when I left it unattended there was passwords. Plus the logs didnt show anything like that. Anyway I brushed that off and dismissed that as error or something of that sort.
Problem began when I tried purchasing credit. I remembered I had left at least 1k in my mpesa account, but alas! It was clean. Zero. On checking the statement I found a funny transaction, with no transaction number, that a reversal had been done to a person named " @M-Pesa " on the day that the line was supposedly out of service. Inquiring from customer care, the fools/moron/meffis/mikundus/:meffi::meffi::mad::mad:they told me that the amount had been reversed to the sender who they couldn’t disclose his/her name.
I went to their facebook page to rant, where I met similar complaints. Got no more to say, the title sums it all up.

Pesa imeenda find a way to get another one matusi haisaidii hehehe