I need to get a new bank. #BangkokBank is such a bad service… they were just easy to set up. I don’t have the same fears of the account closures against tourists, DTV or ED visa holders, but more just how everything is handled. I just tried to send a response email to them in their UI… but the UI is TIS-encoded which means I can’t use English punctuation. When trying to submit you get an error of unsupported characters with no position, & after 15 minutes you are automatically signed out even in the middle of tasks like email without a popup to prevent the refresh, just lost data—& considering the amount time spent trying to construct without punctuation is annoying.

What’s the response I’m trying to make? I asked why SMS is the the 2FA option & how to use it abroad. They said to turn on roaming (expensive). I was trying to yell yet again that at to do the industry standard of FIDO2/TOTP. These aren’t subject to SIM swapping making them more secure, but also aren’t proprietary & do not require a phone, a phone plan, or trusting the phone carriers. Same bank also tries to tell me root/admin access on my phone is unauthorized behavior as if they were the owner of my phone, not me.

Why did BOT allow BBL to open bank accounts for tourists before, when tourists can't even open a postpaid cellphone account?🤔

Bangkok Bank tightens account rules for some #foreigners
"Since January, #BangkokBank has been operating under new #rules. Foreign #tourists are no longer allowed to open #bank #accounts here.. To open new deposit accounts, the bank now requires applicants to hold long-term #visas, be married to Thai nationals or own property in #Thailand"🧐 #KYC
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3036585/bangkok-bank-cracks-down-on-foreigners-accounts-amid-scam-fears