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by JohnFen 1397 days ago
I've been getting spammed with these SMS codes. They've been baffling me because I use MFA, and didn't understand what mechanism could be sending me random codes. I'm glad I know now.

I hope PayPal fixes this shit soon. Not only is this a serious security problem, but the texts are incredibly annoying.

Oddly, I can't make it happen myself -- I don't get the screen being discussed -- but clearly some criminal somewhere does. Must be limited to certain geographic areas?