Don't "high tech" and non Irish banks such as Revolut, Bunq, Raisin etc. also use SMS for 2FA etc.?Text messages are old technology and Irish low-tech banks should be made to upgrade their IT.
And don't forget the unintended side effect of GDPR mandated cookie warnings that have conditioned many of us to just click "yes" automatically to stuff that we don't read.
Merely reducing it would still leave people guessing whether or not a text message was genuine or not. Stopping bank texts completely without any exceptions whatsoever would remove the ambiguity. It would end almost all IT-baseed financial fraud immediately.It'd definitely reduce it,
Why would you think that when 086 is one of the valid Irish mobile number prefixes?I had this the other day where I had a genuine text from AIB. It came from a number starting 086, so I presumed it was junk.
Perhaps due to the fact that numbers can easily be spoofed.Why would you think that when 086 is one of the valid Irish mobile number prefixes?
What I said was stopping text messages for 2fa would reduce fraud, it wouldn't stop it. Every time new protections come in, the scammers start working around them pretty quickly.Merely reducing it would still leave people guessing whether or not a text message was genuine or not. Stopping bank texts completely without any exceptions whatsoever would remove the ambiguity. It would end almost all IT-baseed financial fraud immediately.
You can get browser add ons that automatically delete cookies when you close your browser or auto reject etc. Although some sites don't function correctly if you reject cookies.Really is a bug bear of mine. Keep trying to be good but after visiting the first few websites, fatigue sets in and I just click yes which leads to endless cycle of clearing cookies and starting all over again on regular basis......
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