CEO of the EasyPay payment service, Oleksiy Avramenko, admitted that Ukrainians took advantage of the opportunity to transfer the 1,000 hryvnias received from the state «Winter Support» into cash. What has the company done to stop this?
CEO of the EasyPay payment service, Oleksiy Avramenko, admitted that Ukrainians took advantage of the opportunity to transfer the 1,000 hryvnias received from the state «Winter Support» into cash. What has the company done to stop this?
«Unfortunately, we have been forced to disable the 'money back' feature for Vodafone and Life subscribers. Because there are „especially smart“ Ukrainians who decided to slander the idea of 1,000 hryvnias of „Winter Support“ in this way. The service will not work for everyone due to misuse of state aid,» he wrote .
We will remind, on the evening of December 10, it became known that Ukrainians found a way to cash out the targeted funds received from the state, despite the fact that the range of services and goods, on which you can spend «a thousand of meat», is quite limited.
According to the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, the funds have already reached 1.8 million adults and 520,000 children.
dev.ua asked Oleksiy Avramenko and mobile operators for a comment to understand how the scheme worked.
As Vector previously wrote, since December 2022, Kyivstar has no way to transfer money from a mobile account to a bank card. The work of the «Smart-Money» service, through which it was previously possible to send funds, has stopped. The reason was a change in the company’s development strategy and the desire to focus on specialized telecom services.
Lifecell allows subscribers not to look for workarounds, how to transfer money from a SIM card to a bank card. They can do this through the Paycell payment service, available on the operator’s website and in the company’s application (it can also be downloaded from Google Play and the App Store).
