Staff Reporter
TELECOM Namibia’s WiFi upgrade campaign is under suspicion countrywide after it was abused to scam close to N$850,000 from an unsuspecting WiFi user at Aranos in the Hardap Region on Friday afternoon.
The incident occurred at Farm Wolftoon when a 48-year-old female victim received a phone call from someone who introduced himself as an employee of Telecom Namibia, who was allegedly “busy updating” the victim’s WiFi system.
According to the police, the victim was instructed to download an application called ANYDESK on both her laptop and cellphone and to follow instructions given by the unknown suspect.
In the process of doing as instructed, an amount of N$840,900 was transferred from her bank account.
The suspect is still unknown, said the police.
