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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: "'Scammers stole =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A340k?= after EDF gave out my number"
Date: 5 Mar 2025 18:45:18 GMT
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David Wade <dave@g4ugm.invalid> wrote:
> On 05/03/2025 14:29, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > David Wade <dave@g4ugm.invalid> wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> >> Now I know to do these things in the UK on-line requires a mobile linked
> >> to an e-mail account, so lose your mobile and buy a new one you are
> >> screwed...
> > 
> >    Why would you be screwed? Yes, a new phone costs money, it's -
> > rightfully so - a hassle to get a replacement SIM and restoring your
> > apps and data is not all that easy, but "screwed"?
> 
> because where you have no local branch of a bank, as is now common in 
> the UK, you are forced to use on-line services. UK law now requires that 
> such on-line services use some form of 2FA, most send a text to your 
> mobile. However if you consider your PAYG SIMM disposable you now have a 
> new number and have the hassle of trying to update it on the banks 
> records...

  Ah, I see. So with "lose your mobile", you actually mean "your SIM
expires". That's why <insert_diety> has invented reminders! :-)