Many people across Africa rely on mobile internet for everyday activities, and with this comes a growing interest in global shopping. Increasingly, people are ordering from sites like Amazon, Aliexpress, Alibaba, and eBay, as well as subscribing to digital services such as Spotify, Google Play, and Netflix.
Unfortunately, high levels of fraud remain a challenge on the continent, impacting ordinary users. Common scams involve issues with bank accounts, credit or virtual cards, and digital wallets. For anyone making frequent online purchases, protecting their funds from fraudsters is essential.
In this article, we’ll explain how you can do so with the versatile Ultima virtual card for shopping from PSTNET. Issued by banks in the US and the EU, this card features advanced...
If you are looking for the best web hosting in Nigeria, you have two options. You can either choose a reliable Nigeria-based web hosting company or a global hosting provider. As a business or an entrepreneur in Nigeria, you want affordable web hosting without compromising on performance.
A Nigeria-based web host is one with an office in Nigeria, offering you the additional convenience of paying in Naira. For global hosting companies, you will be required to make payments in a foreign currency, usually the US dollar.
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Liberty Reserve is an e-currency for easily making and receiving payments for goods and services over the internet. If you are planning selling stuff online, Liberty Reserve is one of the payment solutions worth considering. Liberty Reserve is one of a few payment solutions available to people with no access to credit/debit cards.
Payment is instant and irreversible reducing cost for merchants. Merchants that allow the use of Liberty Reserve as a means of payment for products and services on their website enable millions of internet users without credit/debit cards to shop online.
Receiving payments online via Liberty Reserve is as...
Liberty Reserve is an e-currency for easily making and receiving payments for goods and services over the internet. Once you open your Liberty Reserve account, the next step is funding it. Liberty Reserve SA does not sell the LR e-currency directly; rather you fund your account by buying the e-currency from other LR account holders or funding through an independent Liberty Reserve exchange provider. Here we will provide information about some Nigerian based Liberty Reserve exchange providers. We will focus on Liberty Reserve exchangers who are members of the Global Digital Currency Association (GDCA) and those recognised at the...
Liberty Reserve is an electronic payment system that enables account holders to make secure payments on the internet using value stored in their account. Currently value stored in a Liberty Reserve account can be in US Dollars (USD), Euro (EUR), and Gold gram (gg). Liberty Reserve is an e-currency that allows instant payment. It allows account holders to easily send and receive money online no matter their location or distance apart. Since, Liberty Reserve also stores value in gold, it is also a Digital Gold Currency.
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eTranzact International PLC has announced the commencement of its Yuletide promotion for both existing and new cardholders. The promo tagged Genesis Yuletide Promo is offering cardholders discount services in over 1,000 shops across the country via the use of their eTranzact Genesis Card; cardholders also stand a chance to win 20 High-Tech Blackberry or Nokia phones and other unique instant items.
Speaking about the promotion, Mr. Adeyemi Opene, Brand Manager of eTranzact said, "In the spirit of Christmas, eTranzact would like to share the joy of the season with our cardholders by offering over 20% - 25% discount in over...
eTranzact is one of the companies that got CBN Approval to offer mobile money services in Nigeria. The new mobile money service now called PocketMoni was formally called M-Teller Mobile Money. Here we will provide our thoughts about the new mobile money e-wallet service and how it may work based on information already released by eTranzact and operation of mobile money services in other countries especially Kenya.
eTrazact has launched the mobile money service as PocketMoni Mobile Money, you can follow the link to read more about the service.
According eTranzact, M-Teller service is a mobile money service designed to provide...
Services rendered online are easier and more convenient to access. Most Nigerian airlines now offer online platforms that enable travelers conveniently handle Airline Booking and other Flight Booking services online.
The Online flight booking platforms vary in the features they offer. While some offer just basic flight booking, others go beyond that allowing for online booking and online rescheduling of flights as well as e-payment, e-ticketing, and online check-in.
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Leading Nigerian airlines like Arik Air, Aero Air, Air Peace, Med-View Airline, FirstNation airways, and Dana Air all offer some level...
Nokia mobile phones usually come with a couple of games preloaded. However, if you love playing computer games it will only take you a couple of days or a month at most to go through the whole levels in the preloaded games, leaving you with nothing more to play. The good news is that you can download new games for your Nokia mobile phones at the Nokia Ovi Store. Nokia Ovi Store is an official market place for contents for Nokia Series 40 and Symbian S60 mobile phones. So if you are looking for new games for your Nokia...
Improve your project management skills with books. If you are currently undergoing a project management course, you may require books to help you fully understand project management concepts. Here we have compiled some of the bestselling project management books that you can buy at Amazon.com
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Aero Airline (a.k.a Aero Contractors) offers a convenient online platform for handling your flight transaction. At the Aero air online booking platform, you can book a flight or reschedule a previously booked flight.
You can also make secure online payments as well as check-in for Aero airline flight online. You may find lower fares if you pay for Aero contractors airline flights online, a great incentive for paying online.
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Online booking is convenient, it saves you time and money and other Nigerian airlines like Arik Air and AirPeace now offer online booking services. So...
I have been using web hosting services since 2009 and over the years have picked up a thing or two about choosing the best web hosting services. When starting a new project, choosing a good web hosting company is my top priority. You should also take it seriously because the wrong choice will be bad for your business.
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Your ATM card (a.k.a. debit card) gives you easy access to your bank account information as well as makes it easy for you to access the money in your bank account. ATM cards also serve as debit cards, which you can use to buy at stores via a Point of Sale POS device or on the internet. We discuss ATM card security with some debit card fraud and identity theft prevention tips.
The ease with which money can be withdrawn or items purchased using ATM cards make them an attractive target to fraudsters. So you need to be careful when...
Amazon online store has the biggest selection of books and magazines on this planet. From Textbooks, Professional and Career Development books to Novels, from fiction to non-fiction, from children books to Christian books, from e-books to audiobooks, and so on, Amazon.com is your best source for used and new books. Amazon delivers books to all countries, meaning that you can buy books from the online store from virtually any country in the world.
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One great benefit of buying books from Amazon is the fact that the online store offers some of the latest books. In fact, books...
Online shopping is still at its infancy and remains a niche market in Nigeria, though it has grown tremendously in the last couple of years. Here you will find a few online shopping sites, online shops, stores, and malls where you can buy items online. Do not however take this as an endorsement of any of the online shopping services listed.
Where to Shop Online
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If you intend shopping online for consumer electronics, notebooks, home appliances, laptops, mobile phones, mobile phone recharge cards, Nigerian movies, African foods, home appliances, flight tickets, and so on, you will find...
Zmobile is a mobile banking service from Zenith bank. Zmobile (meaning Zenith mobile) enables customers of Zenith bank to carry out various banking and payment transactions with their mobile phone. Some transactions currently supported by Zmobile include balance inquiry, mini statement, bills payment, local money transfer, mobile phone top up, inter-bank money transfer, and so on. Zenith bank also offer Internet banking services, which allows take care of most of your banking needs online.
Zmobile is a menu based mobile banking service. The menu looks like your ATM menu or the Glo Magic plus menu. All you need to do...
ATM machines are well known in Nigeria as machines used to conveniently withdraw cash from bank accounts and check bank account balance. However, it is important to note that ATM machines offer more electronic transaction possibilities. These include fund/cash transfer, mobile phone airtime credit recharge, and bills payment. Here we will focus on using an ATM machine to load recharge voucher pin to your mobile phone.
Where to Buy Mobile Phones
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To load recharge PIN using an ATM machine you need to have a bank account with sufficient funds to pay for the denomination of recharge airtime...
You can buy mobile phone recharge vouchers on the internet in Nigeria. All you need is a valid debit card. One online mobile phone airtime recharge service that we have discovered is that offered by QuickTeller and Konga in Nigeria. To buy airtime through these service, you need an InterSwitch debit card, JumiaPay or KongaPay.
Where to Buy Mobile Phones
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QuickTeller and Konga.com Online Payment Service, allows subscribers buy recharge cards online for Glo mobile, MTN, Airtel, Etisalat, Starcomms, and Visafone for their mobile phones using InterSwitch debit cards.
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InterSwitch Verve card is a secure e-payment card from InterSwitch, a leading provider of secure electronic payment and transaction solutions in Nigeria. InterSwitch Verve card is a Chip and PIN, EMV complaint card; and will replace the existing magnetic stripe based InterSwitch cards carried by millions of Nigerians. If you are still using the old magnetic strip InterSwitch card, ask your bank for the new InterSwitch Verve, it is more secured and offers more possibilities.
InterSwitch Verve smart cards comes with Chip and Pin instead of the magnetic strip used in previous cards. InterSwitch Verve comes with an in-built microprocessor...
InterSwitch Nigeria is a leading provider of secure electronic payment solutions in Nigeria. InterSwitch has deployed thousands of ATM machines and POS terminals throughout Nigeria. In this page, you will find links to pages on InterSwitch website where you would locate shops, stores, and merchants that have POS terminals that support InterSwitch payment platform.
In addition, online merchants and websites where secure online payments or purchases can be made with InterSwitch debit cards are also provided.
There is no point having an ATM/Debit card if you cannot use it. To use debit cards consumers need to know merchants that accept such...
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Valucard Nigeria, a joint acquirer of Visa International in Nigeria, now offers an online Visa card-to-card money transfer service in Nigeria. This service, called V-money transfer, will enable Visa International cardholders worldwide to send money to Visa & VPay cardholders in Nigeria. V-money can also be used to transfer money within Nigeria.
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To be qualified to receive money through V-money transfer service, an issuer or bank that has subscribed to V-money transfer must issue your Visa card or VPay card. If you...
Lotto Nigeria is a weekly lottery game that is drawn twice a week (Saturdays and Wednesdays). Lotto Nigeria is a product of National Sports Lottery (NSL) plc. Presently the jackpot value of the Saturday draw is N2 million (17,242 USD), while the Wednesday jackpot is 1 million Naira (8,621 USD).
To play Lotto Nigeria you select six numbers from 1 to 49. If you can match all the six numbers in the national sports lottery draw, you win the jackpot prize. If however, you match five, four or three you also will some cash prize in the Lotto Nigeria draws.
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Zmobile is a mobile banking service from Zenith bank. Zmobile (meaning Zenith mobile) enables customers of Zenith bank to carry out various banking and...
AliExpress.com is an online shopping mall owned by China's top online marketplace, Alibaba.com. On AliExpress, you will find thousands of top Chinese exporters and...
