I’ve been redirected to a Google form this morning, meaning I had to log in to Google. I don’t use Google that much, so I was expecting the usual “click on all the photos with a fire hydrant” stuff. After that, “for security” they sent a verification code to the email address associated with my account and I entered that.
Then they asked for my phone number so they could send a message with another verification code. Now that starts to look a bit odd. If they don’t already know my phone number then that’s really providing no security at all. It just looks like a fishing expedition to try to associate an email address with a phone number and potentially to link whatever information they have about one of those with whatever they know about the other.
I don’t think so.