Don’t get digitally conned; scams to watch out for

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Last week we were confronted with the story of a local young woman that had been conned by a Ugandan fugitive. Hers is a simple but not uncommon story of how the young, desperate and poor get conned by those that find a gap they can manipulate in society.

The government has apparently saved more than Sh40 billion in taxpayer money that was used to pay 14,074 ghost workers every month.

>The Kahama Member of Parliament on the ruling party’s ticket, Mr James Lembeli, yesterday joined his Kigoma Urban counterpart Peter Serukamba in criticising the government over its decision to clear former cabinet ministers and other senior officials who were implicated in the Tegeta escrow scandal.

The wife of a secondary school owner in Same District has been conned more than Sh600 million by people, who posed as traditional doctors and assured her they had medicine to attract more students to the school.

Some 430,000 who had deposited billions of shillings in the banned pyramid scheme Deci, will have to wait longer for a refund as the outcome of the case involving the scheme is still not in sight.

Only a month at the helm today, President John Magufuli has awoken us to the fact that the artificial poverty of resource-rich Tanzania stems from unchecked corruption, blatant violation of the law, wasteful expenditutre, and a happy-go-lucky culture. The unearthing of the Sh80 billion loss connected to untaxed containers and the dubious Sh12 billion bonds deal are tips of a frightening corruption monster.