[kictanet] SIM card registration status

[Esther Muchiri]

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reported to MPESA but only 20k was recovered - the rest had been withdrawn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 at lists.kictanet.or.ke
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:11 AM
To: emuchiri at 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

 

 

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