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the rest had been withdrawn within 30 minutes.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?
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