<font face="georgia,serif">I do not think you need an ID No. at a Pesa Point outlet!</font><font face="georgia,serif"><br><br><br></font><b><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Peter</span></b><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/21 Pamela <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pamela@cardiacimplants.com">pamela@cardiacimplants.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">All the thief needs is the owners pin number, which the owner
may have foolishly kept with the phone or was somehow deciphered and he would
transfer the funds to his mobile or a third partys’ and viola!!!!</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
kictanet-bounces+pamela=<a href="http://cardiacimplants.com" target="_blank">cardiacimplants.com</a>@<a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bpamela" target="_blank">kictanet-bounces+pamela</a>=<a href="http://cardiacimplants.com" target="_blank">cardiacimplants.com</a>@<a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Odhiambo ??????<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 April 2009 16:12<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pamela@cardiacimplants.com" target="_blank">pamela@cardiacimplants.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Mobile thieves using mobile money transfer ...</span></p>
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<p>On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, wesley kiriinya <<a href="mailto:kiriinya2000@yahoo.com" target="_blank">kiriinya2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">A thief stole
a mobile phone and called the owner's close relatives saying the owner had
been involved in a road accident and was in critical condition. The hospital
required money before admitting the patient so the thief was asking for 4,000
to be sent by M-PESA to the owner's mobile.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif";">The bigger
question is, have people discovered loop holes to withdrawing money from
mobile transfer solutions like M-PESA without the owner's ID document? I
wonder how the thief could have withdrawn the money.</span></p>
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They normally do ask for ID, but they keep no copy, although they record the ID
Number. So in case the number recorded doesn't tally with the owner's,
Safaricom will have to refund the money (well, the agent will incur the loss).<br>
Me thinks that's the case.</p>
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Nairobi,KE<br>
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