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Mobile money: Senegal faces the rise in scams

02/11/2023
Source : ORISHAS FINANCE
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Mobile money, which is a daily payment trail for users, has also become a scam tool for the population. The special cybersecurity division of the National Police responsible for combating this scourge is hard at work

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wave and Orange money are the channels through which people make payments, send money, and other transactions. These virtual wallets make life easier. However, they are new forms of delinquency and new scams. One of the most fashionable ones is the so-called “unpaid invoices”. Scammers demand unpaid bills from customers and less vigilance in the ranks of the person concerned, these people manage to raise large amounts of money and create debts for

the victims.

For this reason, the special cybersecurity division of the National Police responsible for fighting this scourge was created in 2017 and received just over 200 complaints annually, of which about a third related to mobile money scams. The first tool for police officers are the telephone numbers used by scammers to receive money. According to Aïta Diallo, investigator, “a crime is never perfect. We have phone numbers. I work with a lot of telephone operators, we send out the requisitions and thanks to the collaboration of these operators, we are really able to stop them.

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