An Egerton University student will be arraigned in court today after defrauding a Kiambu couple of Sh.716,000.
The fraud was executed via a Sim Card swap scam in June this year.
Sabina Evelyne Nyanumba, 19 studying at Egerton University, and 19-year-old Paul Nyabero Kilenya were arrested in Nakuru’s Njoro sub-county over the weekend.
Police have been pursuing them since June.
The victim allegedly received a call from an unknown Safaricom number and was made to believe that she was being engaged by a Safaricom customer care operator.
In the course of the conversation, the woman was lured into revealing some personal information, which the fraudsters used to swindle Sh296,652 from her Mpesa and Cooperative Bank accounts.
The suspects further raided the woman’s husband Mpesa and Cooperative Bank accounts, from which they withdrew a total of Sh420,570.
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Data analysis by Kiambu-based Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau detectives working jointly with DCI liaison officers at Safaricom headquarters led detectives to the two suspects, from whom the mobile handset used in defrauding the victims was also recovered.
They are being arraigned in Kiambu Law Courts Monday 6th September 2021.
*This article was written by Ivyonne Kwamboka for Uzalendo News. Email: uzalendonews24@gmail.com to submit your story.
