-- On hi, i have just received this email.............quite disturbing. take
care and sambaza to all the people you care about.


  This incident happened to a colleague  recently.A bad experience
indeed.

  He received a call from someone claiming to be calling from
Safaricom.The
  caller was very composed.

   The caller told him 'thank you for being our loyal and valuable MPESA
  customer.You recall we had initially given you a black Sim card but
  changed to green".He answered in the affirmative.The caller then went
  ahead to tell him that Safaricom was running  a reward promotion
scheme
  for their loyal MPESA customers and went ahead to ask him to confirm
his
  National ID number and year of birth.Unsuspecting,he disclosed that
  information.Coincidentally his birth year was also his Mpesa pin no.

  The guy posed for a while and asked him whether 19- - (say 1967) was
his
  year of birth.He again answered in the affirmative.

   The caller then told him he would be sent Nokia 8230, but before then
he
  needed to dial *33*0000#   ,which he did.He was then told not to call
or
  transact anything using his line for the next ten minutes as they
perfrom
  transactions,purportedly at Safaricom,facilitating the process of
  receiving the Nokia 8230 set.He complied.He is asked about  his
current
  location,which information he gives.

   After 10 minutes he tried to call back the number to confirm status
of
  the alleged gift only for the following message to appear :"Barring
all
  outgoing calls activated for SMS services activated for all data
circuit
  async".

   After 15 minutes the wife calls him on his alternate line claiming
that
  some one had called her using his (husband"s ) safaricom line telling
her
  to send them Ksh.10,000 for his release from arrest.She is baffled and
  hence decides to use alternate line,only to discover he is safe and
  sound.

   In the meantime the wife calls safaricom to block the line,but it was
  too late,as all the money in his MPESA had been withdrawn.

   What is apparent is that this line was blocked by the code he typed
,viz
  *33*0000#.

   The question uppermost in mind is how it could be unblocked without
some
  form of connivance by Safaricom staff.He had a substantial amount in
his
  Mpesa account.Could these thugs be getting targeting lines-with good
  balances through connivance with Safaricom staff.

  It is unlikely Safaricom will admit culpability,but tujichunge
  wenyewe.Keep safe.

   The caller identified himself as Alex Omondi(Of course fake name) and
  called using 0720 464 777

   Guys,kaeni chonjo.

  Send this to all your friends b4 its too late...
No mountain is too high to keep you from Climbing it....


Lawrence K
0720784912