One day, a friend of mine accidentally hit a boda boda rider. The accident was not his fault; it was the rider who caused it. I was inside the vehicle, and I advised my friend not to stop. Instead, we drove straight to Kikuyu Police Station and reported the incident.
Had my friend stopped, his car could have been burned, and we could have been assaulted or even killed. I remember a time when a woman knocked down a boda boda rider along Forest Road. She was assaulted by a group of boda boda riders, and the incident became so serious that the then Interior CS, Dr. Fred Matiang'i, was forced to take action.
There is a lot of impunity on our roads from both drivers and motorcycle riders. However, instead of following the law after an accident, some boda boda riders choose to take the law into their own hands, which is completely wrong.
I think the driver chose to run because of the fear he had and confusion.
🚨 BREAKING: Kenyans are already being targeted by scammers exploiting the new NTSA traffic fines system.
We have come across another case, in addition to the one shared by lawyer Donald Kipkorir, and we've also identified what appears to be a security concern with how NTSA ticket links are generated.
A Kenyan reached out to us after receiving an SMS claiming their vehicle had been captured speeding. The message directed them to make payment through a link.
After clicking it, they were taken to what looked like the NTSA website. But if you look closely at the address bar, the domain is not NTSA's official website. Instead of ntsa . go .ke, it is a completely unrelated domain made up of random characters.
That is a classic phishing website designed to impersonate NTSA.
Then there is the case shared by lawyer Donald Kipkorir. According to his post, his son received a message about a KSh10,000 traffic fine, clicked the payment link and paid, only for the money to end up under another person's name instead of NTSA.
We have been looking into these cases, and here is what we have found.
One possible explanation is that scammers are harvesting vehicle registration numbers and phone numbers that are publicly available online, particularly from platforms used by ride-hailing drivers. They then send convincing fake traffic fine messages and direct victims to cloned NTSA payment pages.
We have also looked into the name that reportedly appeared during one payment. While we cannot conclude who is responsible, our preliminary checks suggest it may belong to a KCB agent. If true, it is possible that the fraudsters used an agent account as part of the money collection process. That is something investigators should verify.
We also noticed something else.
The NTSA ticket link shared in the Kipkorir case appears to use Base64 encoding. Decoding it revealed information such as the ticket number and vehicle registration.
Base64 is not encryption; it simply converts data into another format. If official NTSA links rely only on easily decoded or predictable identifiers without additional safeguards, that could increase the risk of scammers creating highly convincing fake messages. Whether that is an actual security flaw depends on how NTSA's systems validate requests, but it deserves urgent review.
One thing is already clear: scammers are exploiting the traffic fines rollout to target Kenyans.
If you are an Uber, Bolt or taxi driver, or anyone whose vehicle details may be publicly available, you should be extra cautious. Never assume an SMS is genuine simply because it mentions your registration number.
NTSA should urgently strengthen this system. One possible solution would be an official NTSA mobile app where users log in securely before viewing or paying fines.
Another would be allowing payments only through an official Paybill using the ticket number as the account reference, instead of asking people to follow links sent via SMS.
Please share this so more Kenyans don't become victims.
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For FULL INFORMATION:
1. My kid bro was on the road @ntsa_kenya said he was though he didn’t know the speed he was driving at.
2. When my bro sent me the text from @ntsa_kenya , I told him to verify before he paid.
3. He called the number on it & was told to pay the fine in any @KCBInKenya nearest to him.
4. When my bro returned to Nairobi, he went to KCB Branch at Freedom Heights on Lang’ata Road.
5. My bro went to a bank teller who confirmed the fine is legitimate & that he can pay the fine.
6. My bro paid the fine & was issued with a KCB receipt!
The entire process looked so legitimate except that after paying, my bro got the text alert that the money was paid to an account of CATHERINE JERONO TOMNO.
Unless @ntsa_kenya & @KCBInKenya publicly respond to this, then we will assume that they are part of a scheme to defraud Kenyans. Why should public funds be deposited in a private account?
Dear President William Ruto,
At a time when Kenya is marking two years since the deaths of young Gen Z protesters, your public attack on Standard Media Group is deeply worrying.The media is not your enemy. A free press is not a favour from State House. It is a right protected by the Constitution. Its work is to ask questions, report facts, expose failure and hold power to account.
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