Starting yesterday, after correctly entering my email and password I’m shown a screen (still directly on Amazon) with a button which will send a verification code to my email to verify my account.
There are 2 things that make this strange.
The first strange thing about this is that this account is close to 10 years old and I’ve never seen anything like this before. Not even a few years ago when Amazon was hacked and made everyone change their passwords.
Secondly is that I’ve never had 2FA enabled or any other device except this computer attached to this Amazon account. I don’t even own a cell phone.
This also doesn’t appear to be directly affecting anything with how the account is actually working and none of the settings have changed.
This also doesn’t seem to be like what people report with randomly receiving phishing texts or emails purported to be from Amazon.
If I don’t click the button after entering my password, the code never gets sent and if I click the Amazon logo at the top of the page it takes me back to the homepage like I never entered my email and password.
What little info I managed to find that sounded anywhere close to this was talking about people receiving forgotten password reset texts when someone was trying to hack their accounts.
That is not whats happening here, there are no links in the verification emails at all. Just the verification code and the standard wall of text about Amazon caring about your privacy and security.
I have also cleared my cache and cookies twice with no effect.
Has anyone else seen anything like this before?
