[kictanet] The Safaricom money machine

[Barrack Otieno]

In other words they are not non-issues Andrea, to learn you must risk
looking silly which is what we are trying here, so when a telco cashes on
the citizens ignorance who defends them? that is impunity!

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Andrea Bohnstedt <
andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com> wrote:

> Both non-issues, I think:
>
> For whatever evils you want to blame on Safaricom (global warming? end of
> civilisation as we know it? feminism?), you can't really blame them for your
> own inability to enter the phone number of the intended recipient correctly.
> And I say this as someone who has broken up larger M-PESA payments in two
> amounts because I was too freaked out that I'd accidentally send the money
> to the wrong person.
>
> And deactivated lines: If you want to deactivate your Safcom line, take the
> money out of your MPESA. Easy. It won't get disconnected by CCK for failure
> to register it because the registration process for M-PESA doubles up as
> your SIM card registration. If CCK disconnects your line because you've been
> found to demand ransom M-PESA payments for abducting kids, you have other
> problems.
>
> On 15 September 2010 10:41, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have noted that when you send money from mpesa to the wrong number and
>> you request for the transaction to be reversed you do not recover the
>> transaction costs.
>>
>> When a line with credit is deactivated what happens to the credit?  With
>> the banks a new policy requires that funds from inactive accounts need to be
>> remitted to Central Bank.
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Yawe
>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> Kenya
>>
>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>>
>>
>>
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