Closet_Gamer
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Hi all. As some of you may recall, my family and I recently moved to the UK for work. Amazing amount of stuff to settle into as an expat.
One thing I didn't see coming was that with every credit card, paypal, bank, amazon, and other service in the universe now requiring an SMS verification to login into an account, moving from my US mobile number to a UK number has become a major issue. Almost no US system is capable of using a foreign number. I've found myself struggling to connect to any service. Its a nightmare. Some systems will allow you to call to get a security code or will email you. Others simply have no alternative to an sms text.
I've tried setting up a Skype number, but you can't text to skype without an outbound text first. I've activated SMS on my home phone service which I can retrieve through an app, but it seems truly flaky. Only one security SMS has made it through.
I've used brute force mechanisms like sticking the US sim back in my phone when required and am considering just unlocking an old iphone and sticking the sim in to keep it as a US phone solely for the purpose of security SMS.
Has anyone discovered a scalable solution to this problem?
Thanks
One thing I didn't see coming was that with every credit card, paypal, bank, amazon, and other service in the universe now requiring an SMS verification to login into an account, moving from my US mobile number to a UK number has become a major issue. Almost no US system is capable of using a foreign number. I've found myself struggling to connect to any service. Its a nightmare. Some systems will allow you to call to get a security code or will email you. Others simply have no alternative to an sms text.
I've tried setting up a Skype number, but you can't text to skype without an outbound text first. I've activated SMS on my home phone service which I can retrieve through an app, but it seems truly flaky. Only one security SMS has made it through.
I've used brute force mechanisms like sticking the US sim back in my phone when required and am considering just unlocking an old iphone and sticking the sim in to keep it as a US phone solely for the purpose of security SMS.
Has anyone discovered a scalable solution to this problem?
Thanks