That's interesting. I just wonder why the owner of a line should be responsible for managing the money of another careless person who sends it to his/her phone. Imagine if you receive hundreds of payments, e.g. if you run an SME and someone wants you jailed claiming that they sent you money which you never returned. I think the responsibility for the money should just be on the sender, after all MPESA has multiple safeguards when sending money including asking severally for the consent of the sender plus a reverse function if necessary. There should be no legal obligation to a person whose line is used to receive erroneous amounts without their permission. In fact if someone uses my line without my permission for financial transactions that do not relate to me I can easily sue them. That can be an opening for money laundering. Those are my thoughts.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, at 8:31 AM, David Indeje via kictanet wrote:
Listers,
Something is being disccused online, initiated by Mr Boniface Mwangi:
"There should be a law that anyone who receives mobile money by error and refuses to reverse the transaction should be banned from owning a mobile line. All mobile numbers are supposed to be registered using an ID and that persons ID should be flagged to never transact again."
https://twitter.com/bonifacemwangi/status/1275659504647057411?s=19
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