A month has elapsed after I started studying the sequences into this cyber criminal act, I started my cyber investigation on this issue on 4th Jan 2026 up to today when the Uganda Police finally netted these conmen and I finally decided to share a light for all of you to read .
First of all,it is worth to note that this group of cyber thieves run a number of fake accounts on TIKTOK,FACEBOOK,INSTAGRAM AND WHATSAPP.
These profile provide pictures and photos of either Natasha alone or Natasha and her family as profile picture or a posted photo with words that lure their targets into thinking that they can get help in terms of finance from the first family to boost their businesses or other socioeconomic needs.Some posted photos that lure the vulnerable targets are like these ones below:
NB:You can see some of the pictures with words that lure the victims,That TIKTOK profile @Mrs.natasha75 also has a Whatsapp account which I named Kgp.Probe(because I was carrying out some cyber investigation on it .it is registered with an airtel number registered in names of Nangobi Beth as you can see in photos below.from the conversation I had with the conman.
That is the airtel number of that whatsapp account!
They usually scout their target victims from the comments on TIKTOK, Facebook and Instagram whom they contact through their message boxes of these social media platforms by asking them to provide their personal phone numbers or these conmen directly give their WhatsApp phone numbers and that is where all the conning process starts .The fraudsters ask which type of business the victim does or intends to do, the capital they have or the capital they intend to start with. It from this point that the culprits start convincing the victim of an existing statehouse body that works through Natasha to fund or help people. After knowing that the victim is convienced,they compel him or her to provide a mobile phone number ,the NAMES,PLACE OF ORIGIN,ETC and the compel him to pay a fee of 48,000.
Below are the conversations in messages and whatsapp calls I had with the fraudster as I tried to study him!
How do they convince the victim?
They usually call the victim via video call on WhatsApp claiming that they want to see the person they want to help. They make sure that the video portrays the picture of Natasha Museveni in a seemingly talking manner while in actual sense it is the culprits talking behind the portrayed video but the victim thinks he or she is talking with the daughter of the President.
This is how it is done:
On whatsapp it is called Video mirroring.And it is done through the following steps:
On android Phone:
1.THEY START A VIDEO CALL
2.OPEN A VIDEO PLAYER APP .
3.PLAY THE PRE-RECORDE VIDEO WITH THE DESIRED FACE
4.USE SCREEN SHARING OR SCREEN MIRRORING TO SHARE THE VIDEO
ON Iphones:
1.THEY USE THE “SCREEN MIRRORING” FEAUTURE(CONTROL CENTRE>SCREEN MIRRORING).
2.OPEN ANY PHOTO APP OR VIDEO PLAYER.
3,PLAY THE PRE-RECORDED VIDEO
4.Then START THE WHATS VIDOE CALL AND MIRROR THE SCREEN
With these steps ,the culprits are able to confuse the victim to believe that he or she istalking with the real person.
To further ,make sure that the victim doesn’t detect it’s a fraud,they send an application interface showing that the organization system is about to process the fund,they show the interface for the payments of the 48,000.Seemingly ,these conmen are programmers who design UIs for specifically luring the victim into sending the money.
You casn see the photo below for the interface:
And as an experience person in cyber crimes i was seeing the interface and the proof that it was fraud!You can see the spelling of some words ,meaning he did it on hurry just to convince the target!
Conclusion :
As you know,I have been writing about this cyber criminals in this region for over 7 years,Iam very sure that many people have fallen victim and no justice to such victims,In upcountry disticts parents have lost money to such fraudsters and very few of these conmen have been brought to book.Many of these fraudsters have even gone to an extent of using the church to con people and many innocent poor peasants have fallen prey without any hope of rescue from these conmen.
From the screenshots below ,you can see a fraudster trying to convience victims that he is a sisterat Mutorele:
Why are these cyber acts apparently uncontrollable?
One of the biggest challenge police or the cyber security team has is the uncontrollable ownership of SIMCARDS IN Uganda(how simcard vendors registered these simcards is an issue I also made an investigative post on about some years ago) ,I know it is very hard to believe that up to now,many simcards are held by people yet they are not registered in their own names.If a victim reports a case or is conned of his or her money,the phone number that was used is thrown away and it hinders investigation or the innocent person falls victim.The gorvenmnet SECURITY agencies must again investigate on how these simcards are registered.
There is a suspicion that a good number of many people own our national IDs yet they are not citzens of Uganda or when they actually do not stay in Uganda.Many non citzens have dubiously acquired or registered for national Ids which they use to register for simcards.This is more common in districts sharing borders with our neighbouring countries.Some of these come and carry out such cyber acts and then turn back to their countries.It is very hard to believe this but facts will soon or later prove this.The gorvenment must employ strict measures in how and who should register for NATIONAL IDs.And stern and strong warning to people involved in the registration and issuance of national documents must be availed and culprits reprimanded.Our president is the most. Panafrricanist in Africa and Uganda the most welcoming to all foreigners but If foreigner wishes to stay in Uganda, a legal and due process must be followed and thus a foreighner legally allowed to stay or get a ugandan citizenship must be the only one to be allowed to register for our national ID.This issue of dubious acquisition of athe national ID by unknown foreighners is not only a fraud threat to civilians but a big danger to the strategic security of all the sectors of the country.
UCC,Police and other cyber defence departments must carry out a massive enlightment of the public on such acts and this enlightment must target the people in vilages.As witnessed,these cyber criminal acts are rampant during the school fees payment time targeting frustrated parents;
and for the case of this issue about Natasha Museveni,the criminals had targeted the presidential electoral time where many victims probably thought it was a way of looking for votes.
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By: Niyikiza Emmanuel(N.E)
For God And My COUNTRY
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