Police in Nairobi are holding two people accused of engaging inna fraudulent fold trade.
The two, a Kenyan and a Zambian were arrested in a house at Kileleshwa on Sunday after allegedly conning an Italian national of Sh8.8 million by selling him fake gold nuggets.
The police say that the two, who were also found to have established a fake gold refinery in the house, fooled the Italian that they would supply him with the gold.
The same was confirmed by Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) George Kinoti who decried an increase in number of complains about fake deals in Kenya.
He called upon foreigners to contact the Department of Mines and Geology and their respective embassies when coming to Kenya for such trades to avoid being conned.
"The gold scam has now reached alarming levels as unsuspecting foreign nationals are being swindled large amounts of money by fraudsters," he said.
An apparent increase in number of fraudsters operating using gold bars has seen 50 people nabbed over the last four months for conning people that they are gold dealers.
The latest incident comes 4 months after the biggest such scandal hit the nation, a Sh400 million scandal which drag in the names of among others, President Uhuru Kenyatta.
This was after a member of the Dubai royal family claimed that he was conned by some local dealers, with the blame landing on Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangula.
This was after the emergence of a sound clip where a person thought to be him was heard urging the irritated buyer to keep calm as the gold would soon be cleared and sent over.