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Me too, but some banks/payment services don't allow that – ostensibly for security reasons...

Even when I did get a "real phone number" (that concept irritates me to no end), one of these first required me to send a phone bill as a "proof of me owning that number" before they would let me set it for 2FA.

I guess that's just what happens when blending/confusing the three distinct concerns of spam/fraud protection, 2FA, and user identification (for inbound P2P payments) into a single identifier.



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