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Why cancel your old phone number in that country when you still have a bank account there? I suggest a bank which doesn't suck, such as bunq.
by ThePowerOfFuet 5y ago
Why cancel your old phone number in that country when you still have a bank account there?
I suggest a bank which doesn't suck, such as bunq.
- Ensorceled 5y agoMaybe they didn't know they needed a phone number to maintain access to the account? Let's not blame the victim here.
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoThe bank is at least equally at fault, if not more so.
- 2rsf 5y agoif you immigrate, like I did, but still have some pension funds or saving accounts in your home country. Why would I want a local phone line?
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoSo your bank can send you the SMS you need to sign in (which in itself indicates their security is poor).
- 2rsf 5y agomost banks don't support international numbers if that what you meant
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoNo, that's not what I meant.
- 2rsf 5y agowhat did you mean then?
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoBanks which rely on SMS 2FA should not be trusted with your money.
- spicybright 5y agoI would never think my phone # was the only proof of identity.
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoIf that's what your bank had been using during the login flow...
- snappieT 5y agoIt can be costly. I moved from Ireland to the US and kept my Irish number active - the cost was a €5 topup every 6 months. Going in reverse is much harder - a lot of the budget phone providers in the US don't have any roaming offering. Best I can tell, you really need to have an account with a real provider, and that realistically looks like $20/mo (Google Fi), 20x more expensive than the reverse.
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoThen it sounds like changing bank is a better answer for many.
- snappieT 5y agoThis oversimplifies the situation - if every US bank uses SMS and you want to retain a US bank, what do you do?
- ThePowerOfFuet 5y agoThat's such a huge "if" that an alternative immediately came to mind: TransferWise doesn't require a US phone number, but you can have a US account number with them.