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by brentonator 2371 days ago
Not unless the service requires a phone number in order to enable MFA. Some providers require the phone number for "recovery" purposes once MFA is enabled very much defeating the usefulness. Countless times we've heard of a helpful AT&T / T-Mobile / Verizon employee forwarding texts or generating a new SIM card for a scammer with a fake ID. It's just too easy.