Verify Dashen Bank transaction receipts
Paste a Dashen Bank receipt link or transaction reference. links.et fetches the receipt from receipts.dashenbanksc.com and shows you what the bank actually recorded: amount, sender, receiver, reference and time.
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What you can paste for Dashen Bank
- The receipt link
- https://receipts.dashenbanksc.com/receipt/FAKE000000FAKE00
- Just the reference
- FAKE000000FAKE00
- Exactly sixteen letters and digits, usually all uppercase.
Where to find it. The Dashen SMS, or the transaction detail screen in the Dashen app.
The thing that catches people out
A Dashen reference is sixteen characters, which is the same length as one shape of Amhara Bank reference. Amhara references start with BN and Dashen references do not, which is how the two are told apart. If a sixteen-character code fails on one, it is worth trying the other.
How to check a Dashen Bank payment before you hand over goods
- 1.Get the reference, not a screenshotAsk for the the receipt link. The Dashen SMS, or the transaction detail screen in the Dashen app. A screenshot is a picture of a claim; the reference is the thing Dashen Bank can confirm.
- 2.Look it upPaste it in, or send it to the API from your own system. links.et fetches the receipt from receipts.dashenbanksc.com, which is Dashen Bank's own receipt service.
- 3.Check the amount and the receiverCompare both against your own record. A Dashen Bank 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 Dashen Bank receipt shown to two sellers verifies for both of them, and nothing on the receipt itself says it has been spent.
Questions about Dashen Bank
How do I verify a Dashen Bank transaction?
Take the the receipt link from the Dashen Bank receipt and paste it into links.et. It fetches the receipt from receipts.dashenbanksc.com, which is Dashen Bank's own receipt service, and returns the amount, sender, receiver, reference and timestamp exactly as the bank recorded them. The Dashen SMS, or the transaction detail screen in the Dashen app.
What does a Dashen Bank transaction reference look like?
Dashen Bank accepts 2 kinds of input: the receipt link, just the reference (Exactly sixteen letters and digits, usually all uppercase). An example of the first shape is https://receipts.dashenbanksc.com/receipt/FAKE000000FAKE00, which is invented rather than a real reference.
Can a Dashen Bank payment screenshot be faked?
Yes. Any screenshot can be edited, and edited Dashen Bank screenshots are common enough that a picture should never be treated as proof on its own. What cannot be edited is the receipt Dashen Bank publishes at receipts.dashenbanksc.com. links.et goes and reads that, so the amount you see is the bank's, not the image's.
Why did my Dashen Bank lookup come back empty?
A Dashen reference is sixteen characters, which is the same length as one shape of Amhara Bank reference. Amhara references start with BN and Dashen references do not, which is how the two are told apart. If a sixteen-character code fails on one, it is worth trying the other.
Is Dashen Bank verification down?
links.et probes receipts.dashenbanksc.com every few minutes from inside Ethiopia and publishes the result at https://links.et/status/dashen, 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.