When you send an SMS to Safaricom wanting to know your MPESA balance, you will be charged Ksh1 for every SMS you send. You can avoid incurring the cost by doing this.
Assuming your account has roughly Ksh 2,000 but you don’t know the exact balance. Try to send to someone over Ksh 70,000 or any amount you know is impossible to have in your account.Safaricom will send you a message that your don’t have enough money in your account reveal the exact amount in your account—they won’t charge you any coin.
Ksh 1 is not small amount!!!