How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
The new technique fraudsters are employing to wipe out M-pesa account balances from phones of unsuspecting consumers, Share widely
This is how it goes. A victim is called by a total stranger purporting to be working for any of the mobile service providers, claiming they have won cash even for promotions they were not involved in. To trap their would-be victims or unsuspecting phone subscribers, the caller cautions the victim never to share the PIN even as they jointly plan to transfer the proceeds of a non-existent cash. That gives a sense of false confidence. According to the victims accounts, the callers appear "fine, graduates and people with either a link or experience in customer care of mobile service providers". They add "unlike the Kamiti prison fraudsters, the latest callers are not in a hurry and call the prey repeatedly without switching off their numbers". Once their prey are convinced, they ask them whether or not they have any money in their M-Pesa accounts so as to avoid exceeding the allowable holding limit. They are so clever in asking not for the exact amount but round figure. Once assured, they proceed to the next step according to the script. It is then that their prey are asked to call #555555 to have the funds transfer process commenced. The caller would then receive "secret password" a combination of digits and letters. Incidentally and to confuse their prey more, such number comes from a customized short-code christened "Equity Bank" as was the case with today's victims. Other instructions follow and the victim is asked repeatedly and "genuinely" whether or not he/she has received the cash. It is then that the victim discovers his account balance. Today, one of the victims lost Sh9,999 in the hope of getting an additional Sh50,000. Another one lost Sh18,500. Many got unreported. Such victims fall for the trap either due to greed but mostly because they are not fully sensitized.
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