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So, if only I had memorized my PEA account number, I could be golden. Of course, I haven't tried this with PEA in my current situation, but in the past when I bill-payed or transferred money, my banks (SCB & BBL) used OTPs via SMS. Since I bought a new mobile phone after I left Thailand, I didn't have the SCB or BBL apps installed. SCB Easy requires a mobile connection to a Thai number to register. For the BBL app, after going through the registration process it also sends an OTP via SMS to finalize set-up. Have to use a Thai phone number, and then they send an OTP via SMS. That sounds like what I did to set up my auto-payment for PEA with BBL.

I have a condo in Jomtien that I left in early 2020 and haven't been back since. I had planned to return at least once a year, but well, Covid. Before I left I loaded up my Bangkok Bank account with funds and had PEA set up automatic payments from it. Each month the PEA deduction was just under THB50. A couple weeks ago I got an e-mail from AIS (who I also set up for automatic payments from BBL) that I was overdue a couple months, so I checked my BBL account balance online. Yikes, I had let the BBL balance run out! I immediately transferred (Wise/Transferwise) a deposit to BBL, and I see that on 11-Oct PEA withdrew THB47.87. That's a relief, but they never took a payment for September. I expected the October bill to be the current THB47.87 plus the overdue September balance (plus possibly a penalty.) Will PEA at some point cut off the power to my condo for non-payment of the Sept bill? (I would like to make bank transfers from with my BBL or SCB bank accounts to PEA and AIS for past due balances, but the banks require SMS confirmations and I can't get the AIS SIM to establish a connection where I am in Mexico. I used to be able to, but now I can't. It may be due to the fact that I'm overdue on the AIS account, but regardless the reason I can't do any bill-paying from here...)