Former long-serving editor at the Daily Nation. He writes the weekly Letter from London.
What you need to know:
The cost of living crisis which we are currently enduring is bad enough on its own, but what’s worse is that it has opened the way for fraudsters to do their dirty work.
Another technique is for scammers to pose as debt collectors in order to exploit the billing confusion that followed the collapse of many smaller energy companies in recent years.
Scammers are even turning up on people’s doorsteps and impersonating legitimate schemes set up by the government to assist the hard-pressed.
