pole@christian...whatever has happened has happened and dwelling on the past wont solve your naivity! I guess now you know the saying 'fool me twice and am a fool'...Dust yourself and move on but before that attempt to utilize gsm technology to track the mhindi through tringulation regardless of whether his using a different sim card or fone!Tracking isnt a tall order! Talk to the CID and get an affidavit to impress on the concerned operator to get the job done. word of caution: the hands will need to be well oiled to get the job done which is 95% certain The fool folds his arms and consumes his own flesh. Better is one handful with tranquility than two with toil and a chase after wind!

did you take details of the office messanger? this might give some lead.

btw isnt all this mention of 'mhindi' this and that a little bit racist?granted he was a muhindi,but this way ur labelling all of them the same. i would not like it if u said this ka luo thief or that kiuk thug. its just one person,not the whole ethnic community. dont u have the guys name? we r a ethnic sensitive country and such utterances will only lead to our downfall and violence as seen 2 years ago.

@Christian - I have heard of such happening before,though I thought it had died down owing to increased awareness. Here is the thing - assume that they are still conning people - why not set up a 'honey pot' - perhaps in the initial deal you had put up a classified ad in the paper? OK,even if not,put aside a few shilling and run some interesting ads that are likely to catch their attention (perhaps an electronic item that moves very fast in the market and for which a ready market exists) - put your ad and try as best as you can to stall any seemingly genuine buyers and look out for those crooks (the deal will immediately seem too good to be true with such guys - they never give you a hard time asking for details but get you excited abt making a quick sale and sometimes they indicate they need it urgently - so you let your guard down). I think you could still ensnare them but be sure when you are drawing them close,you have access to the police or have the cops handy. I once did that with someone who came with a fake cheque for a Laser Printer (those days low level laser printers cost abt Kshs 40,000). Given what you lost,it must have been a photocopier or something like that. Give it a shot - even if you do not get the exact same person (and same messenger),you will breach their network for they never work alone. I hope they do not read SK - and on that note,I am always wary of the deals I see here (land,cars,jobs,etc) for some might not be for real....and Sorry for the misfortune...they will get paid in kind sooner or later even if you do not catch up with them. The problem with equality is that we desire that it be with those that have more than us rather that those that have less

Btw are you related to mkristo? Perspective,perspective is what is needed. Imagine you finally exited a counter at 200k loss. you figure you can recoup this loss by strategic investing rather than wait for the up turn The money will always come back. The pain is in the way it went leaving you feeling like you ought to have done something- This quite desperation results in a lot of negative energy and like @ limuruboy advises report and move on -to make the next 200k! Me first,U next