I also have received a similar call telling me that my wife and I had won dinner at Safari Park Hotel. When I called the scam artists bluff, he abused me and hung up.
I think that Safaricom and the police could indeed do more to prevent these kind of scams.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Dennis Kioko
<dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
This is typical Social Engineering attack which are the largest in Kenya with M-PESA.
While Safaricom says that the money usually has been either withdrawn or send to another account, isn't there a trail that can be followed , or maybe have something like having the line blocked from withdrawing cash, such that the lines can receive cash but cannot withdraw so that the crooks can be apprehended.
The fact that few people are arrested for such encourages more people to run the scheme.
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