Is "VISA DDA PUR AP XXXXXX TAPTAP SEND US XXXXXXXXXXX " fraud?

Written by Ethan Patel

June 18th, 2024

Medium Risk

What is "VISA DDA PUR AP XXXXXX TAPTAP SEND US XXXXXXXXXXX "?

Taptap Send is a mobile remittance company that has been in business since 2017. The firm specializes in providing financial services that enable individuals to send money across borders. It focuses on facilitating remittances primarily to countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. The service is designed to be mobile-centric, allowing users to send funds directly from their smartphones. The company does not provide traditional retail products but rather offers financial transactions and related services including currency exchange and real-time transaction tracking.

VISA: Transaction processed through the Visa network

DDA: Direct Deposit Account

PUR: Purchase transaction

AP: Authorization (pending) code

XXXXXX: Vendor or merchant code

TAPTAP SEND US: Merchant name

XXXXXXXXXXX: Transaction reference number

*: Denotes additional information

DE: Country code (Germany)

Verify if this transaction is fraud in 30 seconds

Verify With Receipt

The best way to tell if this charge is fraudulent is to find the receipt. You may have an electronic copy of the receipt, which you can finding by searching in your email accounts for.

Or, if you want to automatically find and reconcile receipts so you never worry about fraud, you can use SimplyWise to automatically match all bank and credit card transactions to email and paper receipts. The app instantly reconciles your expenses and flags anything that doesn't match.

STEP 1

Connect your Email

Download the SimplyWise app and connect your email account. SimplyWise will search through your emails and find all the receipts in your inbox. This allows you to understand what exactly you are paying for when you see a bank transaction on your statement.

STEP 2

Connect Your Bank

Connect to your bank account/credit card transactions through the secure (256 bit encryption) Reconciliation feature within the app.

STEP 3

Reconcile

Reconcile the charges reported by your financial institution against what you've recorded in your SimplyWise account. Find fraud quickly! SimplyWise will match your transactions to your bank/credit card spending and check those items off.