Detectives Arrest Kenyan Woman Who Conned Foreigner of Sh300 Million in Fake Gold Scam
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a woman accused of defrauding a foreigner of Sh300 million in a fake gold scam.
Pauline Adhiambo Odok, alias Rose Omamo, who has been on the run since May last year, was apprehended on Thursday at Ololua, Dam Estate.
Adhiambo is said to have been masquerading as a relative of a senior government official to earn the trust of her potential victims.
She allegedly deceived Southorn Chanthavong, a director of Simong Group Company based in Lao to believe that she was in a position to sell him gold.
Together with her accomplices, Adhiambo lured the foreigner to an office in Kileleshwa’s affluent Kaputei gardens, where they showed him genuine gold bars in heavy metal boxes and immediately struck a deal.
A flurry of meetings then took place between 8th and 25th May 2019, after which the victim paid Sh300 million for an undisclosed quantity of gold. The consignment was to be delivered to his home country in Lao.
"It is after he had parted with the money being payment for the consignment, that things started going south. Chanthavong, who had been told to wait for his shipment in Lao realized that he had been conned after being taken on a wild goose chase for weeks when the shipment failed to arrive,” the DCI says.
“Immediately the victim reported the matter to detectives, Pauline went into hiding prompting a warrant for her arrest to be issued in January 2020.”
DCI sleuths nabbed Adhiambo in Ololua following a tip-off from a member of the public. She was placed in custody pending arraignment to answer charges of fraud.
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And they can't snub…
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And they can't snub government thieves? Nothing to celebrate here, but pole mzungu.
Bahati baya Nyako.Conjob…
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Bahati baya Nyako.Conjob needs extra brains.But it was easy for Adhiambo to convince a stranger to wire shs 300m.from Laos to Nairobi. It’s a challenge to Wuoyis to do something for themselves and stop waiting for their terror god,Amollo to grab rental houses for them after killing the owners.
There is a network involved…
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There is a network involved here...a big one...of pple in high places, not this Kikuyu, oh, sorry, Luo alone.
-Which Bank received the money if at all the money was wired? Why didn't they say something to authorities? Tell us more on how 300m was received and held here in Kenya...
But now who was that public…
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But now who was that public member? Wivu ni ya nini...huyo mzee pia, aliona Gold iko wapi Kenya?
She is a gold digger just…
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In reply to But now who was that public… by Seneca (not verified)
She is a gold digger just like you! No wonder you don’t see anything wrong with your sister stealing from someone! What a shame!
This foolish @seneca is…
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In reply to But now who was that public… by Seneca (not verified)
This foolish @seneca is really stupid! So you want to tell us it is ok for a luo bitch to con people? You would have been all over the map if a kikuyu woman had conned this man talking son fortified piece of shit! Do you have moral calues! I’m glad that BBI crap to help Raila lane get to presidency failed! You all are not mature enough to lead people! Give me a break @ shineke.
Hardly a week has passed…
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Hardly a week has passed since another Adhiambo conned a Mzungu.
The silence Iget from our social scientists is deafening if I may use this oxymoron cliche.
Again I ask why are our sisters so involved in crimes that few years ago were a preserve of men.And that,just about every week a woman has either scammed someone by pretending to be a girlfriend, spiking a drink,or contriving some nefarious activity...
Women are getting as bad as men.This is not good for society.Something has to be done,either,by laws,or culture.Obviously if something is being done,its not working.We cannot pray it away.Folks this is aserious social concern,and if requires our collective effort if we have to contain this vice.
I notice that the gender…
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I notice that the gender part of that profile poster has only Male /Female choices.Why? Why are we slow to embrace what science it telling us. At least put other there.
At Maxiley, you are asking…
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In reply to I notice that the gender… by Maxiley (not verified)
At Maxiley, you are asking Kenyans to embrace historical evils perpetrated on us by our colonizers; the same evils perpetrated by western masters on our brothers and sisters who were taken as slaves (Sodomy)
Now to take those evils and make them part of our culture and society. This will be the most difficult pill to swallow.
How does evil commited on our ancestors become something to embrace and accept?
This is a culture of the west and will remain that way!!
Science is a universal…
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In reply to At Maxiley, you are asking… by Anonymous UI (not verified)
Science is a universal culture.For all humanity.
So are you saying the conned…
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In reply to At Maxiley, you are asking… by Anonymous UI (not verified)
So are you saying the conned Mzungu is paying back the evils of the colonial masters? It is hard for me to believe that someone can allow himself to be conned that much money by an ugly sister like her. Crime is written all over her face! Wazungus behave stupid most of the time!
Playboy billionaire mogul…
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Playboy billionaire mogul General Malong of South Sudan pulled off many of these stunts. He bathed in dollar bills in video. A huge syndicate
These foreigners act stupid…
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These foreigners act stupid most of the time. How are you going to give a woman Shs 300 million without knowing where the gold is coming from? He deserved to be conned!
The woman is as ugly as the…
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The woman is as ugly as the con stuff she pulling on the foolish jungu. He probably hit her ugly behind and it ended up costing him bigly! I don’t feel sorry for his ignorant little brains!
Wow, Kenya and it’s ever…
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Wow, Kenya and it’s ever ugly scamming women! The men cons are now neutralized by their crazy sisters! What is wrong with these women taking up the very wrong profession of conning others that used to be in the realms of men?
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