Anti-Phishing Awareness Drive Equips Kenyans With Skills to Outsmart Cybercriminals
Organizers emphasized that genuine employers, banks, and government agencies never ask for passwords, PINs, or payments through unsolicited emails or text messages.
Organizers emphasized that genuine employers, banks, and government agencies never ask for passwords, PINs, or payments through unsolicited emails or text messages.
As part of an ongoing anti-phishing awareness campaign, the public is being warned about fraudulent messages claiming recipients have been shortlisted for government jobs.
The Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has disowned a fake employment offer letter circulating online, in the latest incident highlighting the surge in recruitment phishing scams targeting job seekers in Kenya. The fraudulent document, dated 12th February, 2026, falsely claims to offer the position of Administrative Assistant on a six-year fixed-term contract with a gross monthly…
They send you alarming and manipulative messages to trigger fear, so you act without thinking.
The initiative aims to expand the skills of investigators who now face criminals using virtual currencies, encrypted platforms and decentralized technologies to hide money laundering, fraud schemes, terror financing and other cyber-enabled offenses.