[kictanet] Kenya Blacklisted?- Paypal, Credit Cards

Tue Feb 7 15:55:33 EAT 2012

On a related note here's an email I received late last year from
Borderlinx, which provides local addresses in USA & UK for those who are
buying products from companies that don't ship internationally. I never
experienced any cases of fraud so I was quite surprised that it had reached
a level whereby they ceased offering their service to Kenya.

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  *Cessation Of Cross-border Delivery Service To Kenya*     Dear Anderson,

After several months of investigation and attempting to reduce the
incidence of fraud, we have found ourselves in the unfortunate position of
having to cease providing cross-border delivery services to Kenya with
immediate effect.  We have considered a number of options to avoid this
action, but the incidence and risk of fraud for Kenyan transactions is too
great for our business to absorb.

Regrettably, we will be closing the accounts of all Kenya customers. If you
have any packages which are still in one of our export facilities, please
give us your instructions to release the shipments no later than Friday, 16
December 2011.

For those customers who have used our services for legal and honest
purposes, we are truly sorry that we have been forced to take this
difficult decision.  If you have any questions, please contact our live
chat service via the website.

Yours sincerely
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On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:19 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The local authentication has been active for over 2 years now, the SMS
> thing is what the USA is now trying to implement after seeing the success
> of Safaricom.
>
> I believe the issue of rejected transactions has to do with cards issued
> by certain banks.
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box
> 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com>
> *To:* robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 15:06
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Kenya Blacklisted?- Paypal, Credit Cards
>
> 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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