[kictanet] Kenya Blacklisted?- Paypal, Credit Cards

[James Mbugua]

There is talk now of introducing locally, owner authentification through
mobile so that if your card is swiped or used, before the transaction goes
through, you get an SMS asking you to authorize the transaction.

Not sure where the initiative is currently.

JG

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:51 PM, lordmwesh <lordmwesh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just bought a book Yesterday from amazon,and they had no issue.
>
> But I gather that international companies don't value the African market
> so much since the sales revenue are too low, yet risk of business through
> fraud  is high. Credit card fraud is rampant in Africa and it's hard to
> apprehend the suspects. The legal and geographic boundaries make it hard to
> apprehend crooks.
>
> Ideally, If anybody lays hands on your CC or debit card, they can do
> online shopping with it. And card cloning and identity theft is rampant in
> Africa because most of us don't know the consequences.  If the owner
> complains of the theft and purchase, he is entitled to a cash refund. So
> someone has to cushion the losses.
>
> Often we let petrol station  and supermarket attendants dissapear with out
> CC. Do we know what they are doing with it?
>
>
> Regards
>
> On 7 February 2012 13:26, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Liko, others,
>>
>> Might you be in the know on the above issues?  Just got wind that that
>> international players are no longer respecting e-Transactions completed in
>> kenya via Credit Cards issued and used in Kenyan digital space?
>>
>> What may have triggered such an eventuality?
>>
>> walu.
>>
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