Sam, thanks for bringing up the subject. It was indeed sad to see on TV the smartly dressed men walk into a shop and casually carry out their 'activity' without people realizing! I pray to God that they will get caught - thanks for the CCTV. However, what does this say about our society? Recently when Safaricom was upgrading their system, some guy posing as a Safaricom agent called an MPESA agent and guided him in keying some code on his phone to complete the upgrade! What the Agent didn't know is that by punching those keys (note -no amount was entered), a whole 120k was transferred from his phone to the thief's phone! This was immediately reported to MPESA but only 20k was recovered - the rest had been withdrawn within 30 minutes. The case was also reported to the police immediately - but the question is - what can the police do? Someone please shed some light. From: kictanet-bounces+emuchiri=andestbites.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+emuchiri=andestbites.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of kris njoroge Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:11 AM To: emuchiri@andestbites.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] SIM card registration status Saw the same piece last night and was wondering the same, thought that it would be so easy to catch this guys, like once they leave the robbed Mpesa agent the agent makes a call and the transaction is reversed. They could get away with not getting caught but would not have the money so would deter them from doing it again. The sim registration process was all a hoodwink or a quick get rich scheme by someone, don't know how but think so. Why would they start something and then not enforce it? Maybe someone in the know could enlighten us all. Thought the days of mobile crime were long gone? -- If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. - Emerson M. Pugh