BIGNEWS! PHISHING USING CELL PHONES REMAINS UNDER CONTROL

Tigo-based telecommunications workers have been taken to Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court for violating customer information of Tigo Pesa's financial services company, where they have been defrauding Tigo's customers by identifying themselves as legitimate employees of Tigo. Tigo while not Tigo employees .
The fraudsters use the system to obtain confidential information of those customers who have subsequently used it to steal about $ 26 million from various customers of the network through Tigo Pesa.
According to available information, people have different phone calls saying that they have misused your phone to claim that it is the headquarters of the relevant telephone company and would like you to resolve the problem that a particular customer is complaining about.

An agent named Amos Chirwa from Kijichi, Dar es Salaam, said the scams are numerous, and every day they devise different ways so they can rob agents or customers.
"I as an agent, with six years of experience now, would like to advise Tanzanians in general, that you do not give your person a secret number, or personal information even if he or she has identified himself as an employee of telecommunications companies such as Vodacom, Airtel, Tigo or Zantel," he says. The agency concludes that the network would also like to urge Tanzanians not to engage in criminal activities, especially in the case of cell phones as the government has a long way to go.
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