I don’t know
if any other person has actually discovered this but I have been enjoying this
freebie especially on my MTN line since last year (2015). Earlier in 2015, I wrote
an article – ‘Why you don’t need recharge cards’ that mainly explained the
direction the nation is going now and the easiest ways one can now recharge his
phone through his/her bank account without any stress or hassles of looking for
where to buy paper recharge cards.
I did not
just write that article, I actually started using my bank account to do all my
recharges since then and I have discovered something which I don’t think MTN or
other networks wants to publicize.
That truth
is that anytime you recharge from your bank account, your network provider
(especially MTN) gives you 10 percent of whatever amount you recharge. This means
that assuming you recharge N500, you will instantly be credited with EXTRA N50;
recharge N1000; you will instantly be credited with an EXTRA N100 that you can
use to call any network in Nigeria and beyond. I think this is a move in
support of the cashless economy currently being propagated in the country and
also a move to minimize the cost of producing recharge cards from the network
providers.
As indicated
in that article, my registered line with the bank is my MTN line and that’s the
same line I use in receiving my bank alerts and correspondences. This bonus
will always come before even your bank notifies you of any transactions you
have made; i.e the amount that has been deducted from your bank account and
credited as airtime on your phone as a result of the recharge.
The message
notifying you of the bonus(MTN VTU) will always tell you what USSD code to
press to check and verify your bonus but for MTN users, you just need to press *559*4# to check and verify your bonus
account. Any chargeable call you make after this time will be charged from that
bonus instead of your main account until it finishes.
Please, this
offer is not limited to MTN lines alone. You can have this also on your own
network.
Please try
out this vital info and tell us what you discovered or the challenges you are
having in receiving your own in the comment box below:
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