ttj - Tom Jones

 I previously quit Transferwise because they were terrible terrible spammers masquerading as a payments / currency transfer service. Recently, I reluctantly signed up for a wise.com (the new name for Transferwise) account, remembering how persistent and irritating their spam had been. I got my wise.com debit card and it basically works.  But now I find they are stabbing me in the back.  The contact details I gave for management of my account, they are using to spam me. Assuming wise.com actually want to be a payments company, and not a spam company (you can't be both), why do they do this?  Presumably it takes a lot of effort to make something that looks like a payments service.  Wouldn't it make sense to actually just be a payments company, rather than doing all the work that would be involved in being a payments company, and then, for some self-defeating, pathologically idiotic reason, just being a piece of shit common spammer instead? Since a payments card is...

I recently opened a new account with wise.com, formerly known as the spammers transferwise.  This is part of my futile effort to have a basic payments capability. wise.com seem to be following the trend of thinking that the more convoluted they make all their processes, the more "verified" things are.  Processes should involve as many SMSs, smartphone cameras, selfies, time-wasting, assumptions, and glitchy crap that doesn't work, as possible, to reduce the probability of successful account setup. This journey started when I decided to look at the Transferwise card as a possible payments card.  I had previously abandoned Transferwise in favor of Currencyfair (also spammers, as it turned out), because Transferwise kept spamming me.  But I still had the account details. Login with my old account details didn't work.  The only option was something like "I've forgotten my password" to do an account rescue.  But I hadn't forgotten my password.  wise.com, ...