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Online charging of MTS numbers

Despite the relatively high percentage of commissions, payments using cell phones to the so-called “premium” (or simply short) numbers are actively used as monetization of many online resources.

There is even a common joke about a person with overwritten 4242 keys on the phone

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Why does this work? Because it is convenient. Saw, paid, received.



Accepting payments by SMS, you always run the risk of being in a situation where the service is provided and the payment from the operator has not been received. There is such a case if the user has sent an expensive SMS, for which he did not have enough money on the balance, and in cases of intentional fraud. In the case of payments to projects with a secondary market, the amount of fraud can significantly exceed the amount of really paid transactions.

Traditionally, the fraud goes according to the tariffs of OpSoSov, where the balance update does not occur quickly enough. But here's the good news on the site of one large aggregator.

From February 18, online billing is enabled for all MTS operator numbers, which allows the subscriber to work with short numbers only if there is a positive balance.


Has civilization become one step closer?

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/85789/


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