Now all banks advise us to connect the SMS banking service. Indeed, it is very convenient. To perform a lot of manipulations with a card or bank account, you only need to have a phone at hand. What to do if you changed your phone number or lost your mobile phone along with your SIM card? How to link another phone number to a Sberbank card?
How to link another phone number to a Sberbank card
Now all banks advise us to connect the SMS banking service. Indeed, it is very convenient. To perform a lot of manipulations with a card or bank account, you only need to have a phone at hand. Sberbank, like all banks, offers a wide range of services that can be performed remotely via the Internet. This is checking the balance, replenishing your mobile phone, transferring funds to another bank client, and so on. Sberbank of Russia gives to the owner of the plastic card practically all SMS banking services by calling the short number 900. It so happens that you need to change the number associated with the card. The question arises: "Is it possible to do this via the Internet, without visiting a bank branch?" No you can not. Of course, you will spend your time visiting the bank, but this is, first of all, interesting for you. Fraud is now flourishing, more and more schemes are being invented how to deceive ordinary citizens. Therefore, banks are protecting their customers. So if an unscrupulous person has both a phone and a card in his hands, he will be able to freely take over your funds.
Ways to link another phone number to a Sberbank card
There are several ways to change the linked phone number to a new one. And which one to use, you choose.
- We call the hotline. You need to contact a call center employee and go through identification, as a rule, this is a card number, a code word and other personal information. But, with this method, you still have to visit the bank branch and duplicate all the information in the application.
- Through a self-service terminal. To do this, you will need a plastic card directly. You need to enter a password and disable the Mobile Banking service. Subsequently, you need to connect it again only with a different phone number. A very convenient way. And the ATM itself will give you tips on how to carry out this procedure.
- The third way is to visit the stationary branch of the bank. We write an application to change the phone, the operator fills out a request and within a maximum of 5 days the number will be changed.
There are many reasons for changing the phone: theft of the phone itself, breakdown of the SIM card, the wishes of the client himself. But you should know how you can change the number in the SMS-banking system of Sberbank and how long it will take.
Attention! If your phone or card has been stolen, you should immediately contact the bank's call center. Link a new phone number or to block a lost card. Fraudsters are very quick to deal with thefts.
