Cell phone - a piece voracious and pay for it accounts regularly. However you want to do it with ease and minimal additional costs. Updating Account express payment cards - a good alternative to regular visits to the checkout operators. MTS, MegaFon, Vimpelcom - all produced maps, this method of payment is the most common. The cards have face value in dollars or rubles - the most common 10,12,20 dollars (there are 40, 50, 100). For malogovoryaschih subscribers federal cellular operators issue cards in denominations of $ 5 and $ 100, although the cards such denominations manufacturing cost (about $ 0.15-0.25) and begin to affect the spread noticeably.
Buy a prepaid card can be everywhere, but more profitable and safer in the office of the operator - there it will cost at the rate of the CBR on the date of payment, without any commission. At the same dealers and other shops / kiosks / tents price maps include 5-10% margins - margins "of the data points of sale (despite the fact that the operator sells the card dealers at a discount of 3-5%). Prepaid cards can be bought in special vending machines Ibox that stand in the big stores - there should dial digital code card required, add to the input tray required amount of cash (preferably without having to pass) and receive your purchase in a special cardboard box sealed in plastic (Commission electronic traders modest - 2.3%).
The most "delicate" moment - the activation maps, it is important not to make mistakes and do not fill someone else's expense. Financial control operators often are inattentive to meet consumer and cancel an erroneous payment, but it's worth the time and hassle. MTS is now a unified federal express payment cards - for it can be replenished by any contract (in this case to the account simply "drops" the sum of the equivalent value) or used to increase the balance of pre-paid Jeans. MegaFon has 2 types of cards - one to pay the network contracted rates, others (LITE) - to pay for services on pre-paid tariffs, there is no interchangeability. "Tricky beast" - Megafonovskaya trehdollarovaya map the extension of payment: card itself does not buy, but allows another month to enjoy a positive balance in the account. In BeeLine maps "Bee +" can only be used to replenish the group of like tariffs, they are common to DAMPS and GSM. Universal Map Beepay (nominal ruble - 100, 300, 500, 1000) can replenish the balance of the Bee + and any contract tariff plan.
Recently, many scratch cards made of cardboard, and if the habit intensively scrape a coin, you can easily spoil a fine plenochku with numbers - in this case it is advisable that if you still found a receipt showing the purchase card.With the check and have a defective card would be in the office of the operator, where the card if it has not been activated, recognize and value the payment credited to the account.
Bought at a stall at the corner of the map is better to activate immediately in the presence of the seller's in store cards safer to fly in the office of the operator. Prepaid cards being counterfeited, and is profitable. A case when the leadership of one of the dealers VimpelCom made a huge batch of fake cards to replenish the balance of Bee Plus ", was able to sell to its partners a big part of it, and then disappeared without trace. And the metropolitan dealers cellular cards were not working, "Bee Plus' about four million dollars. According to the testimony of victims of the market was thrown around 600,000 counterfeit cards "Bee Plus' most popular denomination of 10 and 20 dollars. Also, fraudsters had prior to his disappearance to take on the security of bank credit cards. However, the majority of subscribers who bought a fake money back. Fakes are revealed when you try to activate - card looks similar to the real thing, but instead of the actual pin code contain random numbers.
Prevalence, anonymity and "liquidity" payment cards (enough to dictate over the phone pin-code) turned them into a kind of "currency" and made a convenient tool for fraudsters. Many ways: dial any phone number and zakosit "under got in trouble a friend / acquaintance (ask to buy a map and to dictate the room), place in a forum tempting offer (complaining to run out of money in the account) - to list all sorts of tricks can be long. A separate article ill-gotten gains scams - many Internet "project" and the software known as "generators" that promise the creation of several existing activation codes on the basis of this one. Need I say that as a result attracted by "freebies" loses honestly bought a card and puts his hands on the computer a trojan? It turns out you need - hundreds of fans still buy "on a penny dimes" fall for such tricks. Actually the prepaid card is useless to blame here - would be Pinocchio, and the field of miracles is always there.
Apart from the "air of the denomination" cards bear a certain aesthetic "bonus". The design not only affects the attitude to the product, but in some way stimulates the acquisition of maps for a specific denomination. Investment in this additional incentive is minimal - just a little imagination, a sense of proportion and diversity of drawings (for collectors).
Some steps have already been made - with the advent of copyright cards for cellular Moscow Megafon network may have arisen and a new hobby - collecting cellular cards. Plastic card first series are decorated in the style of "notes" with engraving portraits of great men in the field of communication - Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell and Alexander Popov. In the future, "MegaFon" will periodically change the design of cards of all denominations, commemorative series on various topics. This decision has already attracted the attention of Russian and foreign collectors. New maps of MegaFon are packed in a transparent film, which is located under the liner with useful information and entertaining stories on the subject of a series (the first series - stories about great inventors).
