MTN and Mastercard announce all MoMo customers will get payment cards

[Jan]

Mastercards for MTN's mobile money platform

Mastercard and MTN Group Fintech have signed an agreement to provide all MTN MoMo customers with payment cards.

In a joint statement on Thursday, the companies said a virtual and physical Mastercard companion card would be added to every MoMo wallet, allowing users access to over 100 million acceptance locations globally.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

and let the Stealing commence!!!

seeing how hard and how long I had to wait recently to do a sim swap within MTN
when my phone got stolen recently, I can only imagine this going sideways in a hurry.

 

[Dups!]

and let the Stealing commence!!!

seeing how hard and how long I had to wait recently to do a sim swap within MTN
when my phone got stolen recently, I can only imagine this going sideways in a hurry.

My daughter lost her phone last month, walked into Telkom: required proof of residence and ID document. Scanned her thumb and that was it. Next up Vodacom, asked the same documents and then the dreaded "last 5 numbers dialled in the last two months."

She gave them 4 and they didn't want to budge, the fifth number was dialled a long time ago, she now uses whatsapp on that particular number.

I eventually went to Vodacom and reasoned with them, fortunately, the lady was receptive and sorted the mess.

I feel these networks should do it like Telkom, less hassles, stress and complications.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

My daughter lost her phone last month, walked into Telkom: required proof of residence and ID document. Scanned her thumb and that was it. Next up Vodacom, asked the same documents and then the dreaded "last 5 numbers dialled in the last two months."

She gave them 4 and they didn't want to budge, the fifth number was dialled a long time ago, she now uses whatsapp on that particular number.

I eventually went to Vodacom and reasoned with them, fortunately, the lady was receptive and sorted the mess.

I feel these networks should do it like Telkom, less hassles, stress and complications.

you had it easy! phone stolen, number blocked, blacklisted, all the jazz,
now to do a sim swap call 135, 100 times, get pushed from pillar to post, told to wait 24 hours to no action, go to 3 different MTN shops, including one of ONLY 3 in the entire WC that does SIM swaps, wait even longer for things to move, get emails that do nothing.

and after about a week of going nuts, get a sim swap back to my old number, but I think the entire thing is a recipe for fraudsters to do whatever they like when your phone and Bank account are the same thing.

so I dont know, not that happy to hear Virtual cards and physical cards being issued by a Cellphone provider are going to happen.

 

[Dups!]

you had it easy! phone stolen, number blocked, blacklisted, all the jazz,
now to do a sim swap call 135, 100 times, get pushed from pillar to post, told to wait 24 hours to no action, go to 3 different MTN shops, including one of ONLY 3 in the entire WC that does SIM swaps, wait even longer for things to move, get emails that do nothing.

and after about a week of going nuts, get a sim swap back to my old number, but I think the entire thing is a recipe for fraudsters to do whatever they like when your phone and Bank account are the same thing.

so I dont know, not that happy to hear Virtual cards and physical cards being issued by a Cellphone provider are going to happen.

Especially MTN, they are known for bank fraud. I don't know how many cases involving MTN have occurred in recent times. I don't trust them when it comes to banking, hence my main number is on Vodacom. I use MTN as a secondary line.