BEWARE! This Fake NGO is Robbing University Students of Their Money Promising Them Fake Internships

Unemployment in Kenya is rife. You can take my personal account to affirm this, even with my degree I stayed almost a year and a half 'tarmacking' as they call it and by the end of the first year I was desperate enough to take any job that would come my way, even if it was an unpaid internship. Now consider my case, one year without employment I am one of the lucky ones. There are cases of some staying up to five years without a job.
We have recently come across word from our sources that a fake organization by the name ‘The Kenyan Child’ has been ripping off young university students who are desperately searching for opportunities to prove and establish themselves in the world.

Apparently someone has been putting up posters (pictured above) of this so called organizations in some of the biggest universities around. We received testimonies from students of the University of Nairobi and the Technical University who fell victim to this elaborate scam.
According the students they were supposed to send Sh.200 in cash to the M-Pesa till number 854247 after which they were guaranteed an internship with the organization which by the poster you can see claims to have partnered with some of the biggest NGOs and companies like USAID, UNDP, UNICEF, World Vision and even Equity Bank.

They have a decent website with all the relative information, a Facebook page and are working with huge NGOs and Corporates, who wouldn't fall for that?
Many who paid then received this message that showed that the money had been received by a different organization called Techno Hub Africa, however other students reported that the received a message that the money had been received by an organization called Selective Media.

Those that paid received no word for two weeks until they decided to visit the UN headquarters themselves to follow up. They would only be received by the guard who candidly told them that the UN does not request for money. This is where the red flags started.
We did some background checks and found the Facebook page for Techno Hub Africa, however all the information given on the page is fake including the contact number which we called. So we decided to look at Selective Media which some students said their money had been sent to and found some promising information.
The Selective Media Facebook page had a contact which when we cross-checked on True Caller and Facebook, we found was registered to one Kevin Otieno. We called him and this is how the conversation went.