There have been a number of cases of what amounts to identity theft in recent months as Zimbabwean criminals move into the modern world, with someone hacking WhatsApp and EcoCash accounts and then conning the real owners' acquaintances and someone else impersonating a lawyer to con others into fake car deals.
One interesting point is that those conned were ordinary people, not businesses.
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