On 01/03/2021 16:35, Tim Lamb wrote:
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On 27/02/2021 11:03, John Towill wrote:
Sad to say the scammers have won, they have made it incredibly
difficultÂ* to operate a savings account on line, blast and damn
them

The government are remarkably releuctant to issue Covid vaccine
passportsÂ* but have done nothing about the fact that for all
practicalÂ* purpose youÂ* have to own a mobile phone as banks like
to use them toÂ* verify who youÂ* are.

doesn't need to be a smart phone though

my candy bar works perfectly well for such verification

Huh! Amazon 2 factor requires me to click a link:-(

last time I looked

Amazon wasn't a bank

Indeed. Same assumption that all customers have a smart phone though.

I'm not sure what you did that required a Smartphone

my last order was made entirely on my laptop

and the delivery indication came as an SMS to my dumb phone

They already had my mobile number.

The general tone from the guy on their help line was invoking 2FA is an
inertia action. A bit like prime.

He didn't say but the inference was you have to actively reject it or
chose SMS / *click link*.

Is it a case that you can't log into the Amazon site from a PC without
using the 2FA?

If you receive the 2FA request via SMS (which I presume is the case with
a feature phone), is it not just a web link that you could could type
(possibly with great tedium!) manually into your browser on the desktop?
(you would presumably only need do it once, to get signed in and then
change the preference)

If it is rendered in such a way that the content is not "visible", what
happens if you use the phone's companion software to copy your text
messages to the desktop, and look at it there?

(I note on the "communications preferences" under Email alerts,
messages, ads, and cookies section I can change SMS options).


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Cheers,

John.

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