Swiss Customer looses 30kCHF

[Daidai]

@OliverCH

Finding phone numbers can be some work but in essence, Revolut helps. If I share my contacts with the App, I see which of these have Revolut. So one way would be harvesting numbers and then check if they have Revolut.

This is the most plausible explanation in my opinion.

It [visibility on one side without contact entries on both side] also was seen as an issue for quite a while:

Privacy issues

So I noticed that if I want to send money to a beneficiary anyone in my phonebook with a Revolut account is identified clearly at the top of the list. Er, this means anyone could input my number to their contacts and then know I have a Revolut account. Not that I am an international criminal mastermind or laundering money but really on a basic scale this isn’t cool?!

When will we get the OPT-OUT to NOT be identifiable as revolut customer to other customers?

Hello. As the other thread (Can’t ‘Send money’ WITHOUT ‘Revolut needs to access your contacts’) concerning revolut’s approach to users’ privacy concerns was closed after one year - ironically saying there is the ‘solution’ of not using direct-payments when we don’t want to grant access to our address book - the other privacy issue discussed in the thread needs an own thread: Up until now every revolut customer is identifiable by other revolut customers if they share their address book. Up unt…