{"id":71687,"date":"2025-05-03T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71687\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:17:09","slug":"martin-lewis-urges-everyone-with-a-mobile-phone-to-dial-5-digit-code-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71687\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis urges everyone with a mobile phone to dial 5-digit code | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Lewis has urged everyone with a mobile phone to dial a five digit code now – and screen grab the result. The money expert issued the advice to his ITV<\/a> viewers after revealing that phone thefts have soared by 40%, with robbers targeting people\u2019s financial information using their mobiles. He urged people to take action immediately to protect their handset from being accessible if it is stolen and reduce the risk of thieves emptying your bank account using your phone.<\/p>\n

Martin<\/a> urged people to change key settings on iPhone<\/a>, Samsung and Google phones to protect them, including text message settings and shared a five-digit code you need to dial. Martin said on his March 11 Martin Lewis<\/a> Money Show Live episode: \u201cMobile security tips – thefts are up 40% in London but they\u2019re going up right across the country too.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow the crucial thing, they\u2019re not just trying to nick your phone, some of them are trying to access your financial data from your phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to protect yourselves on this, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin<\/a> urged people to use remote tracking apps to locate your phone if it\u2019s stolen, such as Find My on Apple and SmartThings on Samsung or Find My Device on Google\u2019s Android, and suspend payments.<\/p>\n

You should also enable biometrics – such as fingerprint ID sign-in – on both your phone and your banking apps, Martin said – and email yourself a screenshot after dialling a code.<\/p>\n

Martin added: \u201cNow, this one sounds a bit weird. Dial *#06#<\/strong> to get your IMEI image then screengrab and save it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is what you\u2019re gonna need to give to police if your phone is stolen. Screen grab it and assuming you can access your email not just on your phone, I would just email it to yourself so you\u2019ve got a copy somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Martin<\/a> added that \u2018possibly the most important\u2019 tip is to make sure two-factor authentication cannot appear on your lock screen.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cMany people have that appear on their lock screen so when your phone\u2019s locked, the code still appears. You don\u2019t want that. It means if someone gets your phone they can get the code. So what you need to do to stop that is turn off your \u2018preview notifications\u2019. It will still tell you you\u2019ve had a message but it won\u2019t tell you your code on your message. Everybody please do that one. It\u2019s a nightmare if you\u2019ve not done it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Martin Lewis Money Show Live March 11 episode is still available to watch via ITVX.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis has urged everyone with a mobile phone to dial a five digit code now – and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[35820,1059,547,35818,35819,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-71687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-financial-data-protection","9":"tag-martin-lewis","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-mobile-phone-security","12":"tag-phone-theft-prevention","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114445041172579445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}