Verify BOA transaction receipts
Paste a Bank of Abyssinia receipt link or transaction reference. links.et fetches the receipt from cs.bankofabyssinia.com and shows you what the bank actually recorded: amount, sender, receiver, reference and time.
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What you can paste for BOA
- The slip link
- https://cs.bankofabyssinia.com/slip/?trx=FT00FAKE000000000
- Just the reference
- FT00FAKE000000000
- FT followed by fifteen characters, seventeen in total.
- A photo of the printed slip
- The QR code on the slip is decoded and followed.
Where to find it. The BoA SMS carries the slip link. A printed or shared slip carries a QR code that holds the same link.
The thing that catches people out
BoA slips carry a QR code, which makes them the easiest provider to check from a photo: the QR holds the real link, so a doctored amount printed on the paper does not survive the lookup. Photograph the QR rather than retyping the reference.
How to check a BOA payment before you hand over goods
- 1.Get the reference, not a screenshotAsk for the the slip link. The BoA SMS carries the slip link. A printed or shared slip carries a QR code that holds the same link. A screenshot is a picture of a claim; the reference is the thing Bank of Abyssinia can confirm.
- 2.Look it upPaste it in, or send it to the API from your own system. links.et fetches the receipt from cs.bankofabyssinia.com, which is Bank of Abyssinia's own receipt service.
- 3.Check the amount and the receiverCompare both against your own record. A BOA receipt that resolves but pays a different account is the most common real fraud, and it is easy to miss when you only read the status line.
- 4.Check it is not a repeatConfirm the reference is not one you have already accepted. A genuine BOA receipt shown to two sellers verifies for both of them, and nothing on the receipt itself says it has been spent.
Questions about BOA
How do I verify a BOA transaction?
Take the the slip link from the BOA receipt and paste it into links.et. It fetches the receipt from cs.bankofabyssinia.com, which is Bank of Abyssinia's own receipt service, and returns the amount, sender, receiver, reference and timestamp exactly as the bank recorded them. The BoA SMS carries the slip link. A printed or shared slip carries a QR code that holds the same link.
What does a BOA transaction reference look like?
BOA accepts 3 kinds of input: the slip link, just the reference (FT followed by fifteen characters, seventeen in total), a photo of the printed slip. An example of the first shape is https://cs.bankofabyssinia.com/slip/?trx=FT00FAKE000000000, which is invented rather than a real reference.
Can a BOA payment screenshot be faked?
Yes. Any screenshot can be edited, and edited BOA screenshots are common enough that a picture should never be treated as proof on its own. What cannot be edited is the receipt Bank of Abyssinia publishes at cs.bankofabyssinia.com. links.et goes and reads that, so the amount you see is the bank's, not the image's.
Why did my BOA lookup come back empty?
BoA slips carry a QR code, which makes them the easiest provider to check from a photo: the QR holds the real link, so a doctored amount printed on the paper does not survive the lookup. Photograph the QR rather than retyping the reference.
Is BOA verification down?
links.et probes cs.bankofabyssinia.com every few minutes from inside Ethiopia and publishes the result at https://links.et/status/boa, with the history behind it. If that page shows an outage, the bank's receipt service is unreachable and no verification tool can read it, including this one. Payments made during an outage still verify normally once it clears.