| Published Wed, January 24th 2018 at 10:04, Updated January 24th 2018 at 10:24 GMT +3Narok security team led by Narok County Commissioner Moffat Kangi (in red tie) inspecting some of the sim cards, ATMs,IDs and mobile phones used by mobile banking fraudsters (PHOTO:ROBERT KIPLAGAT)NAROK, KENYA: Detectives in Narok have arrested six suspects linked to a multi-million shilling SIM card swapping and mobile bank fraud syndicate. The security committee, led by County Commissioner Moffat Kangi and Police Commander Thomas Ngeiywa, said the six were linkedto cyber crimes in major towns across the county. He said the fraudsters had extended their illegal activities to Meru, Kisii, Nairobi, Kitale, and Kisumu. Hundreds of SIM and ATM cards and mobile phones used by the suspects were impounded during the operation. The security officials appealed to financial institutions to strengthen their applications to curb cyber crimes and report to police suspicious transactions in customers' accounts.

Source: Standard Digital January 24, 2018 07:18 UTC