wrote:
I can top up a mobile phone at a cash machine. They need to know who I am
to charge me but the phone I'm topping up may not be registered at all and
has no problem being topped up. Same with Oyster cards, surely?

They need to know who you are - and the phone number.
Or the Oyster card number.
No difference.
--

Andrew

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