On 2010/03/26 3:33 PM, Simon Peter wrote:- > Hi, > > The Stanbic banking theft is mainly for those who use their VISA cards > via ATM or swiping when they travel, be very careful esp. in East > Africa, i have a friend who was robbed of close to a million shillings > courtesy of transactions that were made to from his card details > probably left when he transacted in Nairobi about a month after he had > left that Nai. > > I think internet banking is a different scenario because their debit > Electron cards don't have enough information to enable internet / online > banking at least the ones i have been getting don't unless you explicit > request for this service and as for their internal online banking > platform i haven't yet had any scenarios and its safer with mobile pins > for monetary transactions. > > The million dollar question is why is this happening for only Stanbic Bank.
not true. It happens with many many other banks and not just in East Africa or Uganda. Your friend may have fallen victim to any other scam, and the list here makes interesting reading: http://www.standardbank.co.za/SB_FILES/Fraud_prevention/fraud_protection.html -- Hari _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
