For what it's worth, I use T-Mobile and received the SMS verification code on the first attempt.

Interesting.

Well, according to t- mobile, they do not provide any sort of ID verification service to any 3rd party. Which makes sense from a privacy perspective.

All they do is process short codes for 2FA. Customers can ask to block 2FA messages from specific entities. My account has no such blocks.

So I assume it's CapitalOne's bug and I will not waste more time trying to track down the root cause.

The "Digital Department" at Cap1 did offer to transfer the miles for me so I'll just do that.

Have the same problem. How do I connect to the "Digital Department"?

you just call the main customer service number and ask for the Digital Department aka Website Tech Support.

I suggest telling Customer Service that you’ve already spoken with Digital and they told you to back when you had more time etc. Otherwise you might have to waste time tell the whole story to customer service and wait while they look into it etc.

UPDATE NOV 6TH: I called them back to make the transfer, and could not do it.
First I got transferred to "Digital" who said they couldn't do it and would transfer me to "Travel" even though I asked them not to because I've been down that path before, and Travel only issue tickets, they do not transfer points to partners.

Having explained it all over again to "Travel", they transferred by back to Cust Service. This time I talked with someone who knew how to do it.

But then she tried entering my Turkish FF#, and her system said "invalid format". She explained it is a plain text field with no formatting pattern etc. She tried the number, she tried it prefixed with "TK" (as it shows when I login to the TK site, she tried with hyphens, spaces... nothing worked. Then I asked her to try it with Cathay and with Singapore. Same error message each time.

She reached out to her backend team (aka "Digital") and she siad they were very unhelpful and told her they are not able to do this (the opposite of what someone in Digital told me last week!)

By the way, she also had to verify me by sending a one-time code to my T-mobile number, and that worked.

So, I'm stuck, I can't do anything. Capital One Venture sucks.

How long have you hold the card? I have heard it takes a month or so to be able to use this functionality.

Had it about three years and I’ve transferred point to airlines many times, until they introduced the two factor authentication a month ago. That’s the part I can’t get past.

Is anyone else seeing this message "*This contact is not saved as a contact point*" ?
 

So, after I enter my cellphone number to try and get the authentication code, I see this message *This contact is not saved as a contact point*

I wonder who else sees that ? It's odd because the number I entered is most definitely my only contact number and has been for years.

(Just trying to get some data points in this isssue because I REALLY want to book my Turkish Airlines travel!)


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When you look in your Profile to verify that the correct number is stored in the Mobile number field, do you see "Automated calls and texts are allowed"?

Yep! I've been through all of that stuff. Thanks for suggesting. I've enabled texting to my number for every possible feature and alert, but to no avail.

While I was going through all that, I found the option to generate a virtual card. That also fails with the same 2FA error I get trying to transfer miles.

I've removed and then re-added my phone number in the Profile section in the hope that it will be reprocessed, based on folklore I'm hearing from one or two tech support people.

One more thing that's really amazing is that 9 out of 10 support people think that I want to book travel, and try to transfer me to Cap1 Travel, even after I've patiently (honest!) and clearly explained the feature to transfer points to airlines. The other person thinks I want to transfer points between cards.

I’ve been having the same 2FA problem for a month now.
 

Talked to CS, rewards, travel, digital departments numerous times including escalating to management. Tried everything they’ve suggested unsuccessfully. Very frustrated!

Yep. That's been my experience exactly.
I' ve given up and planned a diff itinerary for my trip (not using Turkish Miles/Cap1 transfer miles).
I'll check back in 3 months to see if it's changed.
Good luck!

Fixed!

As long as I'm using the website (not the app), it seems they've added a second authentication method via the CapitalOne app.

Ironically if you try to access "convert miles" from the app itself, it still asks for a cellphone number to send a text verification, which still fails (for me). :confused:

What Url are you using? I am seeing the same issue with browser

Ha, it was there yesterday and today that option has vanished!
Truly crap.

I’m in the same boat right now. The card is new though. I also have TMobile.