Thanks for reaching out! PayPal wouldn't necessarily offer any kind of backup codes since a new one is generated every 30 seconds. If you were to lose your phone / authenticator, you would need to reach out to our Customer Support to disable that 2FA method. You obviously don't understand what backup codes codes are and how they work. Also it is extremely worrisome that one can bypass 2FA by speaking to Customer Support. It means that with some amount of social engineering, one can break into a 2FA protected PayPal account. So here is how the rest of the industry manages this: you are given a set of one-time authentification codes that you need to store securely. Each of them can be used as a 2FA key, but only once. This allows you to log into your account should you lose your authenticator device.
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