Passy Ma Trevor: DCI Shares Intriguing Tricks Popular Real Estate Scammer Used To Con Clients

• Investigators from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are piecing together evidence to prosecute a suspected scammer
• Businesswoman Pascaline Peter is accused of fleecing her clients who invested upward of KSh 350 million in her real estate firm
• The detectives established that the suspect baited her unsuspecting victims with good returns, convincing them to deposit their savings and loans into the scheme

Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.

Nairobi - Detectives are detaining a businesswoman said to be unscruplous in her undertakings.

Pascaline Peter, fondly called Passy Ma Trevor, is awaiting arraignment on Friday, September 13, after being arrested in connection with a KSh 350 million theft.

The 36-year-old invested in the trust accorded to her by the investors in her real estate company, Pafrim Investments Ltd.

How Passy Ma Trevor scammed investors KSh 350m

According to the detectives, Pascaline employed an elaborate scheme to convince the unsuspecting investors to entrust her with their monies.

Among her tricks was the promise to the victims that they would reap 30% interest worth of returns on their investment.

Convinced of the sweet deal, the victims went ahead to deposit the monies in various accounts held in the suspect's credentials.

"In a well-orchestrated scheme that involved convincing victims to deposit large sums of money into four different bank accounts across Equity Bank, Coop Bank, Stanbic Bank and Kingdom Bank, with a promise of up to 30% monthly interest, Passy Ma Trevor also falsely claimed she was running a successful real estate company that she used as a bait, but once payments were made, she switched off her mobile phone and went into hiding," the DCI narrated.

Pascaline allegedly defrauded 200 people, with the detectives confirming being in receipt of 106 complaints formally lodged.

She switched off her phone and retreated to her hideout in Kantafu, Machakos county, where she was holed up for weeks before the detectives caught up with her on Thursday, September 12.

How Passy Ma Trevor won investors' trust

The woman recruited her close friends and associates into the scheme.

She gave an appealing aura of a well-to-do businesswoman through her lavish style broadcast on social media.

Until the scandal, Pascaline was putting up a futuristic mansion in Machakos.

All was well with the investors, who were dreaming of impressive returns until she broke their hearts with a WhatsApp group update.

She informed them that the business was crumbling and logged out, not to be reached again.

Proofreading by Mercy Nyambura Guthua, journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke

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Passy Ma Trevor was arrested on Thursday.

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