That's a good hypothesis! But I have a strong preference for email over SMS for communication from companies, so I receive almost no texts from credit card companies. It's pretty much limited to an occasional authentication code for logging in (since TOTP-based two-factor is so unfortunately rare).
I imagine it's not, but can also see automated systems flagging the number as being the recipient of messages for over a hundred different financial institutions.
Maybe not but I bet that this many unique credit card emails eventually tripped over some threshold in a risk model. It’s too hard to adjust the model for one person, and putting in an exception for this one person means they take on additional risk if that person then goes on to actually do bad things.
To be clear I’m not saying it’s ok. Google should make it right and then invest in a scalable way to not keep doing this.
dguo|1 year ago
That's a good hypothesis! But I have a strong preference for email over SMS for communication from companies, so I receive almost no texts from credit card companies. It's pretty much limited to an occasional authentication code for logging in (since TOTP-based two-factor is so unfortunately rare).
throwaway313373|1 year ago
umaar|1 year ago
qwerpy|1 year ago
To be clear I’m not saying it’s ok. Google should make it right and then invest in a scalable way to not keep doing this.