Challenges of replacing cash with mobile payments in East Africa
Although mobile payments have taken off as a form of currency in East Africa, the platform is not without its challenges. Africa contains the top 75% of countries using mobile payment in the world, largely thanks to the platform’s ease of use. Reliability and security issues, however, contribute to the challenges businesses face in East […]
Do It Online Zanzibar Seminar: Real Time Payments & Fraud Prevention
Over the last few years Zanzibar tourism industry has become a leader in the online arena, growing faster than other regions in East Africa. This is mainly due to a rapidly growing number of hotels, travel/tour agents using various online platforms such as social media, booking engines and online payment processing to gain global exposure. 3G Direct Pay held a half day […]
Benefits of Replacing Cash with Mobile Payments in Africa
Mobile payment adoption in East Africa is bringing businesses a number of new surprising benefits. With more businesses offering mobile payment options, consumers are left with cash in their pocket (figuratively and literally), and can make more purchases. This way, their cash on hand is freed up and their mobile device is another great way […]
Festive Season Fraud Prevention
Festive Season Fraud Prevention
Fraudulent Emails: Top 10 Things to Look out for
The global travel industry is riddled with countless fraudsters trying to steal money from airlines, hotels, and other travel-related businesses. Their fraudulent email ruses start with them pretending to be a travel agent and emailing a booking request to a vendor on behalf of their fictitious client. In their email, they specify what they would […]
How a $21,000 Fraud was Prevented
How a blog post about fraud prevention saved an East Africa travel company from becoming victims of online fraud K from a safari company that uses Direct Pay Online’s online payment platform received an online inquiry for a booking in one of their luxury camps in the Serengeti for $21,000. The inquiry struck him as strange since it […]
What is PCI DSS 3.0
There isn’t anything more essential to a business’s success than the trust of its clients. Long gone are the days when cash was king; today’s customers pay largely by credit or debit card, which requires the placement of their highly sensitive financial information in the hands of the merchant. It will only take one misstep […]
Direct Pay Online Fraud Prevention Presentation
Direct Pay Online Fraud Prevention Presentation
Just Another Day of Online Payments Fraud Prevention
As Nelson sits gazing at his computer screen, the luscious scent of rich Arabic coffee wafts from his mug, lulling him into thoughts of a laughter-filled morning over breakfast with his fiancé; glancing at the clock, he thinks about getting home early because they have dinner plans with friends for his birthday. Yanking him out […]
Social Media in Service of Online Fraud Prevention
Online payment credit card processors have started to use social media to help combat online payment fraud, a problem that cost an estimated $3.5 billion in 2012 alone. Fraud solution companies and credit bureaus are responding by putting together systems to detect identity fraud through the use of data points stored on individual and business […]