Vodacom launches anti-fraud feature

[j4ck455]

This is a completely useless service because Vodacom has not bothered to do its homework.

“IRSF incidents were increasing from below 10 to over 20 incidents per month and the traditional limit-lock could not effectively mitigate this fraud risk,”

The reason that Vodacom's Call Limit service "traditional limit-lock" does not work for contract customers, is that it takes three hours or more for call and data usage to filter through Vodacom's systems before it gets to the Billing system where Call Limit is actually implemented.

That is the real problem that Vodacom should have fixed instead of spitting out a spin doctored press release to make it seem like Vodacom is great.

This AAHCVC system will suffer from the same three hours or more lag problem before an automatic SIM lock kicks in, and who will be paying the IRSF charges that accumulate before that happens? (not Vodacom)

[jdkh]

After reading the article heading I had high hopes that vodacom now allows you to opt out of any VAS-(R3 per day subs type subscription scams) charges on your phone. Maybe next time.

And euthanise the cash cow?

Vodacom doesn't make money from this but they make a lot from their own VAS which amounts to more than R50k a month. The real problem as has been pointed out here is their stone age system that's hours behind real time. That should be fixed instead of sticking a band aid on it once the damage is done but it would also mean the end of that lucrative OOB charges.

[Keigo]

Your SIM card must be locked and your handset blacklisted. Blacklisting will prevent your cellphone from being used on any other network.

As far as I know, this don't apply to gray import phones/data cards.

The SIM card is locked, mobile service providers will still reject to blacklist gray import phone/data cards.

So what is the use?

*Please correct me if I am wrong.