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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about TOTP in something like Bitwarden or Authy. You can still social engineer your way to getting a code, but a scammer would have to convince the user to reveal that secret, not just pretend to send a code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It sounds like in the above case the codes were real 2fa codes from his bank as the scammers were resetting their login credentials then adding an external account to initiate a transfer. Presumably they were simply reusing info from a breach to make the scam smoother