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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Stop online thieves, now!

Cyber criminals are the ruin of Kenyan IT brains and the entire landscape of this profession. file photo | nmg Cyber criminals are the ruin of Kenyan IT brains and the entire landscape of this profession. file photo | nmg 
Online fraud is increasingly becoming the ruin of Kenyan IT brains and the entire landscape of this profession.
While top IT creators have given Kenya fame and gain, it appears some geeks are using their talent to
have unauthorised access and create phony products, exposing companies to a lot of danger.
Reports that Kenya Power
has stopped electricity token thieves are heart-warming, earning the utility firm a thumbs-up even as they fire on all cylinders to stamp out the vice.
We ask Kenya Power to protect their customers from further agony by running continual campaigns to warn them against dealing with any unauthorised sellers of these tokens or suspect service providers.
It is trickier that these suspected fraudsters are people with more than basic education. It also must dawn on Kenya Power and other organisations that employee fraud is also causing untold agony to companies and State agencies while benefiting a few unscrupulous and ill-advised workers and their agents.
We, therefore, advise a combined front of business lobbies and the State to tame the vice; and, one of the starting points is to push for a special police unit to hunt down these people and bring them to book.

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