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Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud

Marcus Aurelius quotes (Roman emperor, best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy, AD 121-180)

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1. Carjacking of persons in private cars, usually Japanese makes (Toyota, Nissan) as well as Four Wheel drive cars, theft of money, mobile phones, jewellery, ATM Card, extraction at gun point of PIN Numbers for ATM Card, compelling the victim to withdraw money from the ATM at gun point

City Centre of Nairobi during late and early hours of the nights, Upperhill area,Eastlands area.

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Along the Kenyatta Avenue pavement just after the Stanley Hotel.

2. Extortionate Shoe shiners . They shall psychologically coerce you to accept a shoe polish, for which they shall charge you extortionately high fees.

3. Confidence tricksters. They shall approach you looking you straight in the eye, shake your hand, purport to be long lost friend from high school or other institution. Shall as you for some money as things not going well for them. If you resist, they may resort to threats.

Kenyatta Avenue, Tom Mboya Street,

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4. Car Spare parts thieves. They shall catch you in a jam and quickly wrench off your car side view mirrors or head lamps or spoilers.

Globe Cinema Roundabout, Ngara roundabout

5. Rental property conpersons. They advertise in the classified sections of the Nation or Standard newspapers. They usually leave a mobile number. They have no office. They promise to show you a vacant property. They take you there and charge you some money upfront. They may even show you the inside of the premises. They ask you to pay them several months rent.

In the classified sections of the Nation and Standards newspapers, random signs placed on roadsides in all cities and towns in Kenya.

6. They offer you something to eat in public transport matatus and buses, especially the long distance ones. The samosa or sausage is usually drugged. You fall unconscious. They steal all your goods from you.

Public transport buses, matatus and trains especially those travelling long distance.

7. They offer you a flashy mobile phone on the streets of Nairobi. The phone seems to have attractive ring tones.They offer to sell it to you for a small price, much lower than the normal price. After you pay and the seller has left, you find that the phone is either a toy or that it does not work

The streets of any city or town in Kenya, especially Nairobi.

8. An apparently genuine looking microfinance institution purports to lend you money. It asks for a hefty fee as application fees. You find that the institution does not in fact give you the loan you requested, or even refund your application fee.

Cities, towns and neighbourhoods in Kenya

9. You are approached to purchase genuine looking gold chains and rings for a reasonable price. You buy them and later find that they begin to fade after a few hours.

Cities, towns and neighbourhoods in Kenya

10. Theft of laptop computers, projectors and other electronic equipment during conference coffee or lunch breaks

This can occur in any hotel in Kenya where conferences are held

this is prevalent in the Kenyan coastal towns especially Malindi and Mombasa

11. Girls befriending foreigners (usually men), willing to show them around and do business with them, but end up taking off with the assets of the foreigner

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