STC has enhanced is International Credit Transfer service for Sawa by increasing the number of accessible countries to 16. This feature allows prepaid Sawa users to transfer credit from their mobile to friends or family members living abroad, in one of the select countries, as a gift which they can use to call locally and internationally.
Amounts can be transferred in Saudi Riyals and will be received in the local currency based on the current exchange rate.
STC highlighted that the transfer process follows three simple steps consisting in first receiving the list of included countries by sending “10” to “801500”; then sending the country’s name to the same number to receive the pricing list and corresponding country code ; and finally sending an SMS to 801500 containing “133*the recipient’s mobile number*amount reference” to transfer the specific amount. For example: 133*00201030010011.
To better secure the transfers, STC pointed out that the user receives an SMS containing the transferred amount with the mobile number that it has been transferred to which he then only needs to confirm by replying with a “Y”. For support, the client can send the word “help” or “20” in a SMS to 801500 as well or “status” or “30” for previous transactions.
STC reminded that the service has been provided and is now active in the following 16 countries including Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Morocco, Nigeria, Nepal, Tunis, Palestine, and, Turkey.
Source: http://www.stc.com.sa/
