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Your Old Phone Number Could Be Someone's New Number

You may have lost your mobile device, and for some reason could not retrieve your old phone number. It is important to note that after a long period of time you service provider could reassign the number to someone else, therefore there is need to update your online contact details accordingly.


What this means is you need to ensure your old mobile number is no longer linked to any of your online accounts and platforms. You can achieve this by updating your personal and contact information on all online platforms where you may have registered the old number, such as your bank accounts, Google account, Apple account, etc. For bank accounts kindly contact the customer service via phone call, visit their verified website or walk into nearby branch to update your details with your new number.

Failure to effect these contact updates could lead to issues such as inability to receive One Time Password (OTP) notifications, SMS alerts and so on. These notifications would be received by the new owner of your old mobile line, which potentially puts you in danger of being hacked.






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