Apparent Massive Mobile Phone Recharge Card Scam- Buyer Beware!
An urgent message to all of you reading this here in Zimbabwe. It appears that there is a calculated, massive scam going on with recharge cards. So far, I can only confirm Harare. Between 9a.m. until now, I have been contacted by 7 people who have all bought dud recharge cards on the streets. One had bought $190 million worth of recharge cards, trying to hedge against inflation. The others all had bought "juice cards" amounts of not less than $50 million. I thought I should tell you all about this urgently. There have been dud cards before, but not on this scale. My advice is to get your recharge cards from those shops of the cellphone companies themselves, not those "BACCOSSI" street side merchants. At least then you will have recourse, the phone companies' shops themselves always honour returns. It is another matter entirely with streets merachants. There is now no benefit to buying off the streets anyway, the price is the same, and yet on top of that, you r...