A press release issued by Graphcard this morning: Tried, True and Visionary UBA Group Plc Embraces VTN Technology to power ecommerce in Nigeria Laurel, MD USA : December 12, 2007 The largest bank in Nigeria  and Africa’s emerging global bank, United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) and LFR Communications, Inc., a ground breaking e-commerce provider, [...]

Scam emails have been circulating the Internet for sometime now, attempting to trick people into entering their bank account login details into a fake version of their financial institution’s website. This criminal activity is known in Internet security circles as Phishing. To drive-home the point, I am quoting Wikipedia‘s accurate description of Phishing: In computing, [...]

Graphcard sounded promising when it was first launched. It was poised to meet the needs of users in Africa as well as other “third world countries” where credit cards are not widely available to the general populace. Graphcard has been doing fine somewhat all this while but something that is really putting me off these [...]

Graphcard seems to be doing something they should have done much earlier – automated customer support. Their customer support before now, had been via telephone, fax and email. Their telephone were only answered by a customer service representative during US working hours, and on business days only. Customers were asked to leave a message and [...]

Graphcard, a service that enables Internet users to spend cash online, has announced that it has now fully integrated e-gold into its system. In an email to its users dated 3rd January 2007, “The Graphcard Team” wrote: Did you know that we now accept Egold payments to fund your Graphcard account? Likewise you can fund [...]

As recent as the 3rd quarter of 2006, Graphcard users could transfer funds from their Graphcard to Paypal – but not any more. Though it was very handy, for whatever reason, Graphcard has removed the ability of its users to transfer funds to Paypal. Customary to Graphcard, no notice was given before and after. Before [...]

Within a span of just 15 years since its widespread introduction, the Internet has radically changed the face of the world. The number of Internet users on the African continent is currently estimated to number almost 23 million. Globally, the number of Internet users exceeds 1 billion – representing approximately one-sixth of the world’s population [...]