MSE News: NatWest customers locked out 9 February 2018 at 2:07PM in Budgeting & bank accounts 7 replies 1.6K views

Former_MSE_Megan_F

NatWest customers locked out of their account... for using an apostrophe...

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One-Eye

Isn!!!8217;t it amazing that certain websites don't recognise apostrophes !!!8211; or other !!!8220;genuine!!!8221; punctuation

I wonder if any other websites have the same problem

teddysmum

One-Eye wrote: »

Isn!!!8217;t it amazing that certain websites don't recognise apostrophes !!!8211; or other !!!8220;genuine!!!8221; punctuation

I wonder if any other websites have the same problem

This site seems to have problems.

Katiehound

What is it with these bizarre strings of letters and numbers that keep appearing on this website !!!8217;t??

Certain banks, NatWest included don't allow you to use symbols or punctuation marks in your password which seems daft- makes the password a good deal safer.
Maybe that's also why folk are locked out?

societys_child

What is it with these bizarre strings of letters and numbers that keep appearing on this website !!!8217;t??

It's actually an apostrophe (or should be), some iPads are having problems apparently .

18cc

The strings are appearing on a W10 laptop as well (running IE11)

harz99

Believed by some to be connected with MSEs efforts to prevent spam on the forums, blocking of non English characters and words.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi!

If anyone's having apostrophe problems on MSE please have a read of this thread.

Apostrophe Problems

Could you reply on there to help keep this one on topic?

Thank you!