Nairobi city.
Nairobi is known locally as "mji wa wajanja" for it's full of brokers, conmen who have invented several tricks to steal from unsuspected Nairobians moving in the streets.
We have however managed to uncover their most commonly used tricks to steal valuables from the Nairobians.
Here are the tricks.
1) As you walk the busy streets of Nairobi a guy in front of you drops an envelope with cash and another quickly picks it up.Seeing that you saw him, he convinces you to go and share with him. You go to a corridor or a lonely street and then suddenly you find that you’re being robbed.
2) You meet a guy (s) in town pretending to be lost and asks you where the Kenya Charity Sweepstake house is. Tells you he has won 300K and even shows you a genuinely looking ticket. Then tells you unfortunately he forgot his ID at home and asks you to go collect the money for him then you will share. But since it’s the first time you two have met, he asks you leave him some security just to be sure you’ll not run away with his “300K”. You give him your smartphone or some money only to later find out the ticket was fake and you’ve lost your valuables.
3) An old or innocent-looking lady approaches you and requests to use your phone to call someone to come pick her after arriving from ocha. Being human, you help her, the call goes through but no one picks. She thanks you and you get into a matatu. Her accomplices follow suit, and after a short while one of them shouts that her phone has been stolen. They mention the model and colour and dial the number.Your phone rings in your pocket, and before you can explain and prove the phone is yours her accomplices are already raining blows and kicks on you.
4) You find guys playing cards by swapping them on a table. One is throw down and they request you to pick. They pretend you have won and give you a reward of Ksh 200. You’re then told to play and win yourself more money, and because you’re greedy for free money you agree.These guys will swipe those cards like magicians, and all you can do is stand there helplessly as you watch your money being stolen.