Almost had my Safaricom Simcard swapped! - r/Kenya

Just had a disturbing acquisition with what I powerfully fishy was a SIM swap scam. A feline with a section accent (Prolly sb from Rift Valley oregon Western, I can't retrieve the accent root precise well) called me, claiming my Safaricom fig was registered to idiosyncratic named Hellen Chepkemoi, but aft "checking the records," they saw it’s really mine. He started asking however agelong I’ve had my SIM, I deflect this question by telling him I can't remember. He tells maine to expect a connection from Safaricom. The connection doesn't travel instantly and helium keeps connected confirming with maine astir doubly oregon thrice. Strangely, I did person a message, successful the aforesaid inbox thread wherever I usually get legit Safaricom updates similar bundle confirmations. This made it look authentic, but the timing and questions were suspicious. He asked what the connection read, I confirmed it mentioned Hellen Chepkemoi, past helium pivoted to asking astir my past M-Pesa transaction. That was the last reddish emblem - I remembered this was the nonstop benignant of info required erstwhile replacing a stolen SIM, since I had mislaid my telephone unneurotic with my SIM cards past year, I blocked my simcards after. When I went to regenerate my SIM cards, those were the nonstop benignant of questions I was asked.I hung up immediately. He tried calling 2 much times, but I ignored. Later, Truecaller flagged his fig arsenic spam, though it hadn’t shown immoderate informing erstwhile helium archetypal called. This was different reddish emblem to me, due to the fact that usually, Truecaller does place to maine who is calling maine oregon conscionable usually shows that bluish popular up thing... Yet for this 1 it didn't. And yes, adjacent erstwhile the nary called for the archetypal time, I didn't prime up immediately, since I thought it was idiosyncratic whose I calls I was trying to avoid. I accidental that was capable clip for that popular up happening from Truecaller to travel up ...