[kictanet] Be careful what information you give and to who!

[Brian Ngure]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is typical Social Engineering attack<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29>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 While Safaricom says that the money usually has been either withdrawn or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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Brian Ngure
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