Lee-Anne is Program Director for Grameen Foundation’s Mobile Financial Services Accelerator initiative based in the organization’s AppLab Uganda offices.
Mobile money has had bad press lately for fraud-related cases. Most of the reported cases were either the result of internal employees misusing the system to cause operator losses or fraudsters trying to scam unsuspecting users. There is another angle that rarely gets any press—when users or agents abuse the platform and use it in rogue ways that it was never intended.
