<div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think that Safaricom and the police could indeed do more to prevent these kind of scams.</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Dennis Kioko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com">dmbuvi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This is typical<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29" target="_blank"> Social Engineering attack</a> which are the largest in Kenya with M-PESA. <br><br>While Safaricom says that the money usually has been either withdrawn or send to another account, isn't there a trail that can be followed , or maybe have something like having the line blocked from withdrawing cash, such that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. <br>
<br>The fact that few people are arrested for such encourages more people to run the scheme. <br>
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