As the inflation takes on its toll, many of us are finding ourselves caught in between with no way to turn that many of us wonder, when will this dreadful nightmare stop especially with looming family responsibilities? As many are struggling to get a few shillings into their pocket especially for the basic necessities of life, many predators (fraudsters) are out their to take in their prey especially as many tend to run to get rich schemes. Something so amazing and really inexcusable for someone with a reasonable IQ because all of us in our society we are hardly ignorant of the money- thirsty-local doctors in our varied local cultures and how they can promise one wealth and prosperity and yet, they themselves are living in ramshackle structures and as always been the trend, people fail to listen to their senses and follow these obvious deductions only to fall when they are lied to by these doctors after all they employ a sort of magic which many of us hardly ever have the guts of even shouting out boldly in public due to the obvious indifference which we will receive from those around us.
This article provides us with one of the commonest pseudo (false) employers and its upon us to act on what we have learned and protect ourselves especially in money matters for all of us agree this topic is highly sensitive.
Fraudsters who promise jobs which never exist whether local or an international level and with the recent advances in the internet in our locality, many of us have to be on guard especially on international fraudster, these are highly prevalent in west Africa in particular; Ghana, Senegal for these guys are so good at hacking into email accounts and exciting one with offers they never invested in. On our local scene, many of us have got text messages during promotions especially by these giant companies in our locality claiming that we have emerged lucky winners in a recent draw, only to ask you to call them on a given telephone contact. Many because of the pressures around our rapidly agile society and the pressures that ensure, reluctantly give in their particulars especially the bank accounts only to realize that their accounts have been wiped out.
Acting the good Samaritan is something all of us have always been taught to do in our various places of worship and of recent, one man claims being short of money and seeks for some little money from a nearby gentleman, the gentleman asks for a security before handing him the dry cash and this man sends this fellow some money using M-money only for him to realize a few minutes later that the transaction had been cancelled by this man whom he helped since he had called the customer service center and requested for the cancellation. This though doesn’t mean we have to be mean, but if one wants to help someone, be careful so that you’re not easily toyed about. Accounts of this nature are so prevalent especially with the revolutionized M-money/pesa/sente/zap and remember with no evidence to pin the fraudster down, the authorities can hardly do anything good for you.
Keneth Iceland kasozi
kenicemedia@yahoo.com
