Escroquerie, usurpation d’identité : Comment un chauffeur a vidé le compte Wave de sa patronne
Moustapha Gaye, Mame Balla Dia, and Ibrahima Fall appeared before the Dakar Magistrates' Court on Wednesday for fraudulent withdrawals via Wave from Nogaye Kébé. Using a well-rehearsed method, they emptied his account, which contained over 1.5 million CFA francs.
It all started with a complaint filed by Sonatel, jointly with customer Nogaye Kébé, a trader at the Autonomous Port of Dakar. On December 17, 2025, the victim discovered that 1,762,000 CFA francs had disappeared from her Wave account.
The thieves had a well-rehearsed modus operandi. Moustapha Gaye, the victim's driver, secretly photographed his employer's national identity card and sent it to his accomplice, Mame Balla Dia, who lived in Touba. Dia then attempted to disconnect the victim's phone line at the Sonatel agency in Mbacké, presenting the photograph. However, the agent demanded the presence of the number's owner. This is why Moustapha Gaye traveled to Touba.
He enlisted the services of Ibrahima Fall, presented as a field sales partner (PVT) at Orange in Touba. Fall proceeded with the line disconnection and subscriber change without the physical presence of the account holder or presentation of the original national identity card.
For this irregular transaction, he received 10,000 CFA francs, while the regulatory fees amount to only 1,000 CFA francs.
Next, the SIM card was installed in Mame Balla Dia's mobile phone and a new Wave account was opened with Ms. Kébé's number and the money was withdrawn.
Having pocketed the money, Moustapha and Mame Balla went to buy an illegal vehicle for 1.5 million CFA francs. The car was seized and impounded in Touba by the gendarmerie.
According to investigators, Mame Balla Dia was the beneficiary, while Moustapha Gaye was in charge of the driving, paying the sum of 9,000 CFA francs every day.
Arrested by the Colobane research section, the trio was brought before the Dakar prosecutor's office for criminal association, fraud, identity theft, telephone line usurpation, fraudulent access to a computer system, data breach and complicity.
In court, Moustapha and Mame Balla, both drivers residing in Touba, admitted to having fraudulently emptied Nogaye Kébé's Wave account.
Ibrahima Fall, the PVT (Professional Working Holiday Visa holder), tried to exonerate himself, claiming that his co-defendants had told him the SIM card belonged to their mother. He trusted them because his friend Fallou Niang had introduced them.
The plaintiff claimed 2,100,000 CFA francs in damages. Maitree Sayba Danfakha, counsel for Sonatel, which joined the case as a civil party, claimed a symbolic one franc.
In his observations, the public prosecutor, considering that the facts are consistent, requested two years imprisonment for all the defendants and the confiscation of the vehicle for the benefit of Onrac.
Defense lawyers Famara Faty and Baba Diop pleaded guilty, requesting leniency from the court.
Ultimately, the three defendants were found guilty of the charges against them. Ibrahima Fall received a three-year sentence, with two years to be served in prison; Moustapha and Balla were sentenced to two years, with one year to be served in prison. The judge awarded 2,100,000 CFA francs in damages to the victim and a symbolic one franc to Sonatel.
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