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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
difficult* to operate a savings account on line, blast and damn them

The government are remarkably releuctant to issue Covid vaccine
passports* but have done nothing about the fact that for all
practical* purpose you* have to own a mobile phone as banks like
to use them to* verify who you* 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?
Just so.

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)

Indeed. Laziness comes with age:-( Also my phone has the attention span
of a Gnat so reading and typing a relatively long link requires two
hands. Not shopping with Amazon has not yet ended my world:-)

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?
Visible. I don't think Alkatel considered *companion software* for the
*one touch*.

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

Yes. My plan: when I get back the-)



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Tim Lamb