Tricks that Criminals use in Kenya
Beware of criminal tricks! For many years, criminals in Kenya have used an array of tricks to execute their ulterior missions often with great success against their victims. Surprisingly, the tricks are age old but they still work- otherwise the criminals would have ceased to use them. We read in the newspapers many stories of how people lost their money, property or got kidnapped after following a fairly predictable criminal thread.
We are all left to wonder why people never get to learn from repeated cases of criminal activities that are widely reported. What we forget is that it is not the same people that fall victim of the criminals over and over again. It is mainly new people who are conned or robed of their money and property.
The criminals on the other hand have a good system of passing down criminal knowledge and expertise from one criminal generation to the next. That is why the tricks remain intact and they often get fine tuned according to changes in the victims’ knowledge. Criminals also keep on devising new techniques of overcoming their victims and revisiting tricks that the public may have forgotten.
In the following article, we bring you tips on the commonly used criminal tactics in Kenya and how to respond if criminals apply them on you. Our aim is to help all law abiding people especially Kenyans, to avoid the trap of falling for criminal tricks and losing their property. We will also update you on new tactics when they come up. One general rule is that you should report all criminal activities, even attempted ones, which you are aware of to the police. Even if the criminals may not be arrested, the police will have statistics and knowledge that they can use to improve their security arrangements for public interest. A lot of people refuse to report criminal incidents especially if they are attempts or the victim did not suffer loss or damage, arguing that there was no need of informing the police because they would do nothing and there was no damage incurred during the attempted criminal activity. This attitude is defeatist because it emboldens the criminals to make more attempts and it misleads the police that there are no criminal activities in their jurisdiction. As we inform you of the tricks criminals use in their illegal trade, we kindly request you to inform us of any new tricks that you may discover so that we can keep the pubic informed and empowered to fight crime. You may write to us on info@infotrackea.co.ke.
Strategies
- Threats on telephone
- Telephone offer to deliver your lost documents
- Telephone business offers
- Prayers to multiply your money
- Fake kidnapping
- Proposal to share an instant bounty find
- Street gambling (Pata Potea)
- Exposing your body
- Daddy claim
- Drug in drink
- More to be continued- stay with us for your safety and security