Mandy96
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I think I once talked about this business on this same forum, and I won’t go against my points that it is a very lucrative job and well advisable to do if you have the adequate requirements, but this does not mean that it does not have the risks surrounding it as well. These days, it is becoming rampant that people are using this means to defraud people of their hard earned money. In which at the end of the day, it always end up with the agent suffering the loses. I think I have witnessed on two different occasion where people come to launch complain about this same issue and they happen to be the persons running the business.
Sometimes, people steal other people’s debit card and come to use it at the POS machine because they are well aware that the ATM machine will take capture of their face so they would not want to make that mistake, eventually the investigation will lead to that agent’s location and could be interrogated which will delay his or her time to be making money. As a POS attendant, I will advise you not to accept USSD or bank to bank transfer in order to avoid fake transactions, there are others dangers really attached to it but you just have to be smart.
Sometimes, people steal other people’s debit card and come to use it at the POS machine because they are well aware that the ATM machine will take capture of their face so they would not want to make that mistake, eventually the investigation will lead to that agent’s location and could be interrogated which will delay his or her time to be making money. As a POS attendant, I will advise you not to accept USSD or bank to bank transfer in order to avoid fake transactions, there are others dangers really attached to it but you just have to be smart.
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