PRESS: Tele2 caps payments to mobile accounts at 10 deals/day

MOSCOW, Apr 30 (PRIME) -- Russian mobile operator T2 RTK Holding, working under the Tele2 brand, has limited the number of payments to mobile accounts by 10 transactions per day from up to 50 deals after reports on fraud and cash withdrawal via the operator’s SIM cards, business daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday.

An operator spokesperson attributed the move to the fact that the company’s website “has faced unprecedented attacks from numbers linked to Tele2’s former partner in mobile commerce.”

At present, T2 RTK Holding caps remittance from a mobile account at 600,000 rubles per month with a daily limit per recipient at 100,000 rubles. The whole limit for all services of mobile commerce is at 1 million rubles per SIM card per month.

The daily reported earlier in April that the communications service and the Interior Ministry had received complaints from Internet users who fell victims to a scam with a possible volume of hundreds of millions of rubles. Users were offered to participate in an all-prize lottery and were asked to pay a commission and enter banking card data. Tele2’s payment system was exploited.

Platform ChronoPay had been the operator’s partner in e-commerce, but T2 RTK Holding stopped working with it and now partners Gazprombank.

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