Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: VanguardLH Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Codes sent by text message Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 22:01:20 -0600 Organization: Usenet Elder Lines: 20 Sender: V@nguard.LH Message-ID: <1uppdwld2qlfe$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net G4BIrMFsocBJKRrQ4h6ixgQUvFMhptpFGptzkRRc7BcIoUewJr Keywords: VanguardLH,VLH Cancel-Lock: sha1:lHs6XQc21Eq2j2ZKRh8E6oJKhHI= sha256:Jw2jSJCZifDQhhrB1Hezb9bRDL+Y9tG3THZFqLLBcyY= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.41 Bytes: 1673 "Carlos E.R." wrote: > Newyana2 wrote: > >> "The Real Bev" wrote >> >>> WTF? Why is the google voice number not a REAL phone number? >> >> As V said, the simple answer is that they want to spy. > > No, that's not it. Not for a bank. > > They want to know that you are an actual person with a phone and > contract. They have to trust the company giving those numbers. Well, that *is* tracking to a device. They hope the device belongs to you, and you're the one in charge of the phone when the call arrives. Rather a stupid concept: send the code to the same phone that is trying to log into a web form. Geez, of course the thief or hacker just must ignore the code sent to that phone for the login they're trying to hack.