This document summarizes a study on reducing prepaid electricity meter tampering in South Africa. It finds that meter tampering costs the electricity industry R625 million annually and leads utilities like Centlec to lose 58% of total revenue. The study recommends implementing advanced metering infrastructure like smart meters, expanding virtual vending points of sale via SMS, and creating an operational efficiency framework to improve Centlec's revenue collection from its 144,000 prepaid customers from R144 million annually to R300 million by eliminating losses from meter tampering.