Safaricom Shares 3 M-Pesa Safety Tips to Secure Money: "Report Conmen"

 

Safaricom has shared a video advising its customers to remain watchful and giving them tips on how they can safeguard their money on M-Pesa. Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa. Safaricom has shared tips to secure money on M-Pesa due to rising cases of fraud. This comes following an increase in the number of Kenyans claiming to have been conned or to have lost their money on M-Pesa fraudulently.  Safaricom gives 3 tips to secure money on M-Pesa In the video, Safaricom shares three tips on how customers can secure their M-Pesa account information and avoid being conned.  "Remain watchful and safeguard your hard-earned money from fraudsters!" said Safaricom. Here are tips to keep M-Pesa safe: Do not share your M-Pesa pin with anyone Create a unique PIN (personal identification number) and avoid using your birth dates as your PIN as well as guessable numbers such as 1234. Unless verified do not share your personal information with any social media account or agent claiming to be Safaricom. Safaricom emphasised that the company only contacts customers through 0722 000 000 and asked its customers to report numbers they suspect of trying to con them to 333. How Pastor James Ng'ang'a lost money on M-Pesa Pastor James Ng'ang'a from the Neno Evangelism Centre fell victim to SIM swap fraud and reported the incident to the police.The cleric disclosed that he lost a whopping KSh 630,000 after his SIM was swapped and money withdrawn at an M-Pesa shop in Nakuru. "They swapped under my name James Maina. First, they withdrew KSh 35,000, then KSh 40,000. The next day, they withdrew again from the same shop in Nakuru. I have just recorded a statement to the police. KSh 630,000. Something is wrong somewhere," he lamented. Kenyan man shares how he outsmarted online scammers In other related news, Daniel Mbui shared his distressing encounter with online scammers, detailing their elaborate scheme promising easy profits through deceptive tasks. Daniel Mbui was initially enticed by small returns on investment, but later, scammers requested larger sums under false pretences of system errors and additional tasks. Mbui narrated the progression of the scam, from earning KSh 300 to sending thousands of shillings as instructed and how he almost lost KSh 26,000 to the scammers. 

by  Elijah Ntongai