Police in Tigoni, Kiambu County, confiscated 3,000 phones and numerous sim cards used to con unsuspecting Kenyans their hard-earned money.
The young Information Technology (IT) graduates were believed to have innovated the conning system that amassed them a copious amount of cash north of Ksh60 million.
A bundle of notebooks was also seized together with the communication devices, where huge sums of money withdrawn from different mobile-money outlets were recorded.
The books also contained detailed information about the names of their victims, contact information, identification numbers, the shops they transacted at and valid dates of when they lost their funds.
"The suspects don't withdraw from one shop, they transact from different shops and as you can see they do not withdraw small amounts.
"They withdraw huge amounts and nobody can suspect them because they have proper identification details," a police officer explained.
Police at the scene were perturbed by the novel revelations and the synergetic organisation employed by the miscreants to conduct their illegal trade.
The officer in charge revealed that the brains behind the illegal syndicate confessed that they resorted to the criminal activity following the high unemployment rate in the country.
"When they complete their studies and lack jobs afterwards, they coin such dubious activities to dupe others," the police stated.
The security agents thwarted their sinister methods of earning their daily bread, a vocation that many unemployed youth have embraced to survive the hard economic times.
Police launched investigations into the syndicate's fraudulent activities.
