Conned –A mobile money vendor operating in the CBD along Mfangano Street Nairobi was left with losses after a conman masquerading as a customer made away with her money on Saturday June 24
A viral video shared online by a tweep shows a female trader being engaged by unscrupulous heavily built man putting on a black t-shirt.
The man goes on making frantic fake calls in the guise of something urgent happening and which required his financial attention.
He goes on claim that one of his cars carrying liquor had been impounded by police and, to avoid arrest, he urgently needed sh 30,000 to bribe out the officers.
“This guy came making a call I didn’t know it was fake call, alikuwa anasema Askari wameshika gari lake na pombe so he wanted to withdraw sh 40,000 to bribe them, he had a national ID and a Samsung phone little did I know that ID was not his and the phone was Mkopa’s,” the victim recounted how this happened within a short time.
He then goes head to ask which M-Pesa agent Number was appropriate for withdrawal of the sh 40,000. The operator shows her one of the numbers stuck on the wall as the man purports to be withdrawing.
In between that process, he makes another fake call and, in a very clever way, persuades the lady to hand himthe sh 30,000 so that he can stop the ongoing police exercise.
“He asked me to give him sh 30,000 apeane kwa dere pale nje ndo asishikwe, after I gave him the money, he left the phone and ID with me,” she goes on to explain the incident.
The vulnerable lady hands over the money as the conman leaves behind his phone telling her to take care of it. The man speaks in a Meru accent.
“I came into my senses and realized nimepeana sh 30,000, the phone haina any Simcard and it was on loan, the ID is not his,” she added.
The lady then remains hanging around with hopes that the man will come back to pick his mobile phone but this never happened.
She is now appealing to the DCI unit to help launch manhunt and arrest the conman before he causes much harm to other traders.
