Verizon, how will you Spam my busted email cuz I’m 1 Factor Poor?

Sam Cliff
2 min readJan 4, 2024

So I can still contact Local Emergency Services, which is important, and when I decided to let this slide I genuinely didn’t see this coming — Mr. Murphy strikes again of course…

1 Factor Poor

My phone is off. Disconnected. See:

No money to restore the phone and already one email account where I handle personal finances, business, health affairs like my TRT prescription, well, that was an interesting learning experience. Now apparently it’s my problem to go in and un-do what worked and should work again if I paid up, but considering Verizon just opened a Pay-As-You-Go-Burners-In-A-Box over on Jefferson Avenue, why bother?

Conclusion

Any email account where I can no longer access due to Verizon determining that two-factor authentication communications are not worth continuing…maybe they have internal memos? Something tells me it might be like Delta and the idiot Hank who “innovated” carry on bag fees FOR FIRST CLASS because “there was a lot of revenue potential.”

So is this a strategy to increase retention until Federal Law forces you to stop being assholes.

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Sam Cliff

Gonzo School of Journalism, BA & MA, Guitarist, OCTX, IG austin_on_guitar