Not receiving bank OTP on SMS? Here’s why
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Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 17:30 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 10: Are you worried about not receiving bank, LPG one-time passwords (OTP) through SMS in your box? Hold on, you are not alone. Over the past three days, several users have flooded social media, highlighting chaos, affecting daily life.
People were reported to struggle affecting everything from CoWIN registration OTPs, bank OTPs for debit card transactions bank transfers and while making purchases on e-commerce platforms such as Paytm and several others.
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Also, as per an ET report the Aadhaar authentication for services also suffered. We are unable to reach authentication service to serve you OTP. Please try again later, said a statement on the official Aadhaar website. This has been faced as the new TRAI s proposed SMS regulation moved into its second phase from Monday (March 8, 2021). Nonetheless, implementation of these regulations caused
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As the implementation of TRAI s second phase of new SMS regulations by telecom companies continues, people around India have started facing difficulties in receiving OTPs for any kind of transactions through banks, e-commerce companies, or even two-factor authentication messages.
According to a report by The Economic Times, the Aadhaar Authentication of services also crashed. “We are unable to reach an authentication service to serve you OTP. Please try again later,” said a notice on the official Aadhaar website.
“The purpose of the petition was to protect the digital payments ecosystem and customers and we don’t feel the need to press for any further compensation. In case we see any delays in the implementation, we will come back and fight again in the court,” the spokesperson told The Economic Times.
Typically, fake headers and messages are disguised as coming from banks or payment executives to secure private details from unsuspecting customers in order to gain access to their bank accounts and siphon funds. Such frauds proliferated during the pandemic-induced lockdown in tandem with the rising number of first-time digital payment users.