I was out shopping with Lady Cow today and as she was buying a couple of pairs of new clothes for herself, I thought of scoring a few brownie points by paying for them. Being a bit short of the folding stuff I decided to pay by QR scan. Now one would think a relatively easy operation. Unfortunately as I was confirming the sale by entering my password I accidentally f%$#ed up the last number. No problem I thought I'll just re enter it. Oh contraire. A message comes up "your password is locked after multiple attempts". WTF? I only got it wrong the first time. Being at the shopping centre I go to the Bangkok bank. Apparently it is to prevent scams on foreigners accounts I am told and immediately locks on the first bad entry. The nice lady took me to the ATM and after entering my password which still works the ATM (if not the app) and leaving her to enter all my information I was able to submit a new password. So back up and running. It looks like I will soon be an expert on resubmitting a new password with this first strike and your out.
Anywhere else in the world (other thasn a govt app) I would be asking what idiot came up with this idea, bearing in mind I had already signed into my phone then used my password to sign into the app both times correctly, then unceremoniously dumped out of the banking app after mixing up the confirmation password.