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Baffled by bogus charges on your Amazon account? It may be the work of a crook's phantom gadget

cynic 2
WTF?

Amazon 2FA

So I can enable 2FA using an app like Google Authenticator. That sounds OK-ish, but then Amazon insists on setting up my phone as a secondary 2FA (text or voice).

I must be missing something here. The main reason for using an authenticator app is to avoid SMS hijacking, but a miscreant going down the backup 2FA route can still succeed?

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