On 16/09/2023 in message <kmm0lgF96ohU1@mid.individual.net> David wrote:
[I suspect that M$ was assuming a mobile phone and tried to send a
text to
a land line.].
You have been able to text via a landline for 20 years now.
[I suspect that M$ was assuming a mobile phone and tried to send a text to
a land line.].
On 16/09/2023 16:57, Jeff Gaines wrote:
On 16/09/2023 in message <kmm0lgF96ohU1@mid.individual.net> David
wrote:
[I suspect that M$ was assuming a mobile phone and tried to send a
text to a land line.].
You have been able to text via a landline for 20 years now.
And the robot even leaves a message on your answering machine (for those
of you who can remember what that is)
I wonder why the phone didn't ring, then?
Even made a call to it to confirm that it was working.
We have just discovered that a friend's Hotmail account has been
compromised.
Not sure how because they are normally very cautious.
The interesting timing is because they have just bought a new laptop and
I helped with the configuration, and 2FA wasn't working because the
account had a (correct) phone number associated with it but this failed
to ring and supply the 2FA prompt.
[I suspect that M$ was assuming a mobile phone and tried to send a text
to a land line.].
Anyway we decided to change the 2FA setting to a Gmail account.
Because of the 2FA failure a wait of 30 days was put on any further
account activity.
Recently (about a week ago) another email was received saying the
waiting period was over.
Today phishing emails are going out from that account.
Correlation and causation, of course, but it does make me wonder.
Is this ringing bells with anyone?
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