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To be vulnerable to the 25 cent charge, you have to make a phone call. Why is anyone setting up a bot to make huge number of phone calls? The phone system is
by radford-neal 5y ago
To be vulnerable to the 25 cent charge, you have to make a phone call. Why is anyone setting up a bot to make huge number of phone calls? The phone system is meant for people to make phone calls to other people.
- mhzsh 5y agoFor types of 2FA, sadly. AWS also does it to verify your phone number when you create an account.
- radford-neal 5y agoSo the worry is that some fraudster would set up numerous AWS accounts with a number for 2FA which AWS would call, and then they'd ding them for the 25 cent charge? If actually a problem, having the charge go to charity rather than the recipient would eliminate any monetary incentive. I suppose one is left with someone who has a grudge against AWS trying to bankrupt them 25 cents at a time...