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Spyware? Safaricom on its Knees after suspicious 44444 ‘test’ SMS

Spyware? Safaricom on its Knees after suspicious 44444 ‘test’ SMS

Peter Ndegwa led Safaricom has been forced to go on its knees and apologise to its users after they received a suspicious ‘test’ message.

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The suspicious test text that most if not all of Safaricom users received

Safaricom subscribers were worried after receiving an odd text message reading “text” through a 44444 shortcode.

The telco in response to the Monday, February 22, the message said it came as a result of a system error but the issue was being fixed.

Safaricom has apologised without explaining which error

Some social media users alleged that Safaricom might have been testing the spy software, from Beijing-based Huawei.

China’s HUAWEI was testing their new spy spyware through their proxy, Safaricom on shortcode 44444 early Monday this week,” a social media user posted.

While many netizens seemed legally clueless about tampering with their privacy and data, quite a number of sane Kenyans are eager to know what the test was for.

Who owns the shortcode 44444? And why spam users with search a message?

This is worse than it seems to be. What I can’t understand is how Safaricom system failure was caused by Abdul Zuku!

Yes, if you do a background check of the number 44444 the name Abdul Zuku appears.

A screenshot of the Truecaller search on the number 44444 that randomly sent an SMS to Safaricom subscribers