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EcoCash bill payments & mobile app will be down due to system maintenance
EcoCash has, in a tweet, notified its customers that bill payments and the EcoCash mobile app will be down due to scheduled system maintenance. The statement reads as follows: Customer Notice Planned...
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EcoCash online payments system experiencing technical challenges
At about 07:24 to 08:37 this morning the EcoCash API was completely down. The API (Application Program Interface) is what allows merchants to sell you services and accept payments using your EcoCash...
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[Download] Monetary Policy Statement, February 2021
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, John Mangudya released the first Monetary Policy Statement for 2021 which detailed the affairs of the financial sector. The statement comes after some...
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Cassava secretly shuts down EcoCashSave
So it appears that EcoCashSave has been shut down by Cassava Smartech. The option for EcoCashSave no longer appears on the USSD menu and it seems to have been replaced by the relaunched KaShagi...
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Cassava has “temporarily” shut down EcoCashSave
Last week we were shocked to see that EcoCashSave had been removed from the *151# USSD. When accessing the menu it appeared that EcoCashSave had been replacing by the relaunched KaShagi microloans....
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EcoCash & OneMoney grew in Q4 2020 while Telecash crashed
Despite the mobile money restrictions which were a feature of the second half of 2020 (till present date), EcoCash and OneMoney grew in Q4 2020. Overall mobile money subscriptions increased by 2.7 %...
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Nearing 1 million subs, OneMoney slashes airtime discount to 10%
The one thing that I thought OneMoney had going for it was the 20% discount for NetOne airtime purchases. This offer was very enticing and was one of the reasons why I opened a OneMoney wallet. In...
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OneMoney giving away 500MB for a ZWL$1000 deposit
It looks like the folks at OneMoney are now making a serious push to one million subscribers as well as looking to make some serious strides to closing the transaction gap to EcoCash. In a tweet by...
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EcoCash WhatsApp scam on the rise, Police say US$100 million lost so far
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has said that it has received a litany of complaints from people saying that they have lost money to an EcoCash WhatsApp scam. The reported figure for the money lost...
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US$100 mil EcoCash WhatsApp scam doesn’t make sense & here’s why
Earlier on we reported on the EcoCash WhatsApp scam that has, according to the police, lost Zimbabweans US$100 million and counting. Now when we looked over what was being reported a few things didn’t...
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“We were not hacked!” says EcoCash concerning the WhatsApp scam
EcoCash and its parent company Cassava Smartech have released a statement concerning the US$100 million WhatsApp scam that has been making the rounds in the press. In the initial report by The Herald...
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EcoCash US$100 million fraudsters arrested
Last week we were all rocked with the news that there was a US$100 million fraud happening that affected EcoCash users. According to the police, there were scammers who were hijacking people’s Econet...
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Why are you still using EcoCash?
The question might sound strange because EcoCash is pretty an institution when it comes to payments in Zimbabwe. However, when it comes to issues like the cost of transactions, OneMoney and Telecash...
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EcoCash reaffirms its position as a licenced Bureau de Change
Towards the end of last month, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that it would be selling forex to registered Bureaux de Change which they would be allowed to sell on to their customers/public....
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EcoCash abruptly pulls promotion, not a good look for the mobile money operator
EcoCash today announced suddenly that it was discontinuing the Win A Cow, Bank to Wallet promotion. Important Customer Notice pic.twitter.com/wyKgqR288U— EcoCash Zimbabwe (@EcoCashZW) May 22, 2021...
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EcoCash cancelling promo: a sign that war with RBZ & Banks is far from over
EcoCash over the weekend prematurely cancelled its Win a Cow, Bank to Wallet promo without as much as a word of explanation. This, at face value, reflected poorly on Zimbabwe’s biggest mobile money...
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EcoCash warns customers of account hijacks (again)
EcoCash has released a statement warning customers to be vigilant especially where it concerns account hijacks or takeovers: Public Notice Warning: Guard Against FraudEcoCash is aware of reports of...
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Screenshots: Don’t fall for this Ecocash scam
One side effect of Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 is that I have observed an uptick in the use of the RTGS dollar. This is driven in part by increased usage of mobile money, swipe and ZIPIT. Thanks...
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EcoCash’s Zimswitch services including bank to wallet are down
EcoCash has in a statement announced that it’s Zimswitch services are down. CUSTOMER NOTICE EcoCash/Zimswitch service interruptionDear Valued Customers,Please be advised that you may experience...
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EcoCash will be asking you to update your account details
EcoCash last week on Twitter put out a notice to its customers notifying them of a Know Your Customer (KYC) or account details update excercise. The message from EcoCash reads as follows: Customer...
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