The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party has flagged a fraudulent scheme targetting its members and supporters of Deputy President William Ruto.
In a statement signed by the party Secretary General, Veronica Maina, the scammers were said to be calling unsuspecting Kenyans to contribute money towards party activities.
Maina stated that they received numerous complaints and the party's administrators traced three phone numbers involved in the scheme.
"This is to inform you that the contacts listed below do not belong to the UDA party but to conmen who have in the last few days been fraudulently obtaining or attempting to obtain funds from innocent Kenyans.
"They include 0722210031, 0745021896 and 0726482097," read the statement in part.
Maina insisted that the party did not request funding from its members and does not charge them to participate in its activities.
The SG added that the party only contacts its members through its official channels listed on the website. UDA reported the issue to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI).
Con games targetting politicians and their supporters have increased in recent years with fraudsters posing as party officials and politicians' aides to con Kenyans of their hard-earned money.
A majority of Kenyans targeted are those who have registered their numbers with political parties.
In April this year, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) warned aspirants against a scam syndicate promising to issue them with forged certificates at a fee.
“We have received a few complaints on incidences where some fraudulent persons are trying to extort money from ODM candidates with promises of issuing them with the party nomination certificates.
This is to inform all our candidates not to pay anyone for their ODM certificate. “Please report any individual who asks you to pay money for an ODM certificate,” Catherine Mumma, National Election Board Chairperson, stated then.
