Posing as an Orange customer service agent, MB Thiam defrauded multi-service managers by making them believe they would earn money through Wave transfers. Hunted by the Kaolack Research Section, the repeat offender was finally apprehended in Mbour with an impressive arsenal: dozens of identity cards, SIM cards, and Wave accounts opened in other people's names, according to exclusive information obtained by Seneweb.

It all began on April 11, 2026 in Betenty, in the Fatick region. An individual called N. Ndiaye, known as Matar, on his phone and told him that he had won a prize of 150,000 CFA francs offered by Kirène with orange on the occasion of the independence day.

He asks her to go immediately to a Wave location to collect her winnings, while remaining constantly in contact with him.

Upon arriving at the MA Mané multi-service shop in Betenty, N. Ndiaye handed his phone to the manager. The scammer then changed his story, presenting himself as an entrepreneur and claiming that Ndiaye was his employee and that he needed to send him 3,070,000 CFA francs to two numbers.

Convinced he would profit from the transfer fees, the manager complied. It was only after the transaction that MA Mané realized he had been tricked. He filed a complaint with the Kaolack Research Section on April 13, 2026, which was joined by a complaint from Sonatel.

The investigation reveals that the number in question is located in Mbour and that the withdrawals were made at several Wave points in the city.

Thanks to footage from a Wave point security camera, the suspect was identified. The manager of a neighboring Wave point positively recognized him and led investigators to his home. MB Thiam was then arrested by the Kaolack Regional Police in Mbour.

The search of his home, conducted in his presence, uncovered a veritable arsenal of fraudulent materials. Investigators seized 24 biometric national identity cards, 9 old identity cards, 8 Wave cards opened in someone else's name, 9 Wave cards without accounts, 3 mobile phones (including the one used to commit the fraud), 14 Kirène SIM cards, 10 Orange SIM cards, 2 Expresso SIM cards, 1 Africel Gambia SIM card, 1 Orange Money card, 1 Crédit Mutuel Sénégal card, 1 business card, 1 Senegalese passport, and 1 Woyofal card. A YAS subscription form used to open numbers with stolen identity cards was also discovered, according to Seneweb sources close to the prosecutor's office.

Confronted with the video showing him trying to convince a Wave agent to give him money using FM's ID card, MB Thiam finally admitted to the facts.

The investigation established that he acted in collusion with CBD, located in Kaolack, who withdrew 970,665 CFA francs from several Wave points of sale in that city. CBD is actively being sought.

It also appears that MB Thiam is a repeat offender, already sentenced to one year in prison in 2023 in Thiès for similar offenses, with damages estimated at more than 15 million CFA francs.

Brought before the public prosecutor at the High Court of Fatick this Thursday, May 7, 2026, MB Thiam is being prosecuted for criminal association, fraud by false promises, attacks on Sonatel's computer systems, usurpation of function and identity.