Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg 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 Organization: NOYB Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net 9J+5gQnGN2YCa8iesO7cygydWFB3Ifx7h2uG96BR0L03zx8GrJ X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:eLP8lCCU3z5dQi7PfFuo+FmNAVw= sha256:0OqJd14auPTWc+gjKKSUqVduEXU2AW6X22wePglHzd0= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2262 David Wade wrote: > On 05/03/2025 14:29, Frank Slootweg wrote: > > David Wade 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 has invented reminders! :-)