Strategy to obtain US Amex

[_TheTraveller_]

This thread has gotten a bit unruly .

I've noticed some mention about Cap1 Google Pay issues. I was reading on reddit regarding some workarounds for it. It seems like the Cap1 app uses your current sim card registered location as part of it's determination process.

I had a US Sim and an EU roaming sim. Cap1 app was throwing all kinds of errors. I disabled the EU sim and continued only with my US sim and everything worked. If you don't have a US sim maybe disable your current sim and try to use Wifi and see if it works. Also try to add the card to your Google Wallet via a browser to see if that bypasses some issues.

Here are the two threads I've taken advice from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleWallet/comments/1c6xztm/setting_up_capital_one_card_on_google_pay_google

https://www.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/comments/16vtt7y/cant_create_a_capital_one_virtual_card_were_sorry

In terms of fraud detection, the advice from expats seem to be that try to logon to the app from the country before making purchases. That way it will detect that your OS and less likely to flag your account for fraud.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/comments/zqr4ii/how_to_travel_internationally_problemfree_with