Take an example of con men who call people on phone telling them they have won money or got them remedies to poverty.
The said con men usually call people saying they work for local telecommunication companies telling victims that they won a given amount of money in a lottery or by chance.
They sometimes tell the receiver that his/her number was chosen as an ardent client.
When the receiver shows interest or is convinced, they go on telling him to follow regulations so as to be sent money they won but with the aim of getting money by false pretense from them.
As he addressed members of the media last week, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dan Munyuza said that sometimes con men are mistaken and call his number.
He was giving examples on impersonation, forgery and falsification, crimes that are rampant nowadays.
“They call me also saying ‘I know you have a problem of which remedy I have got. You won some prizes, can you please come and become very rich as soon as possible? When we get to catch them, we arrest them and they are punished,” said IGP Munyuza.
“They even call my number. When you accept to talk to them, they ask you to first send them some cash on Mobile Money platforms. These issues are rampant. I would advise those involved in that illicit business to stop it because those who have so far bee arrested are so many,” he added.
In June 2015, the Nyamirambo Primary Court sentenced to five years in jail a man who had been arrested for impersonating Rwanda’s former Defense Minister James Kabarebe on Facebook.
One Jacques Mugema allegedly managed to dupe some people that he was Minister Kaberebe and successfully collected money from some with promises of attending to their issues expeditiously. The money would be deposited on a mobile money account he claimed belonged to the ‘secretary’.
In October 2017, a man masqueraded as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and EAC affairs, Amb. Olivier Nduhungirehe and asked money from people in his name.
He told one of the victims that the Government had planned a Rwf15 billion for Rwandans living in the diaspora with income generating projects and borrowed from him the money to help his relative.
In February this year, somebody who used the telephone number registered in the names of Justin Mulisa used to call people and tell them he is the Headmaster of Lycée Notre Dame de Citeaux School and requested from them the money for his brother’s burial.
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