Originally Posted by
moondog
Yes. The "two friends" thing happens fairly often. While all of us have at least two friends, whenever the request comes through when they are asleep, things are not good.
Hahaha... My Chinese friends even asked me if I can only get locked-out during their daylight hours
In my case, most of my contacts are business associates. It's hard and weird for me to keep asking them to "verify me" whenever I get locked out. There are way too many possible triggers to get the account locked out. The good news is that most Chinese also experience lock out or account restrictions, so they understand the pain. Locals are telling me that e-wallet fraud is rampant in China, so these platforms are restricting anything remotely suspicious much more aggressively than before.