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@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@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@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@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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