{"id":1637,"date":"2006-01-09T22:38:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T22:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/01\/09\/amazons_plastic.html"},"modified":"2006-01-09T22:38:49","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T22:38:49","slug":"amazons_plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/01\/09\/amazons_plastic.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon’s plastic response to phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, i’m one of those obnoxious people who uses a unique email address on every single site and when i use a site where i put my credit card in, i use a string of odd letters and numbers at the end to make it less guessable. I’m very careful to not give out those email addresses outside of the company i’m dealing with and, because i use pine and a Mac, i’ve never worried about viruses. Plus, business emails go to a separate account that is removed from my primary email.<\/p>\n

Over the holidays, i got a phishing message to my Amazon email address and i was quite upset. (I’m one of those people who has an Amazon credit card and gets the free shipping because i spend far too much money there – this is not an account i want to be fucked with.) Amazon has this whole thing about how phishing is important to them and thus they have a special reporting place. So, i write to them. What do i get back? It’s my fault, of course. In response, i get a link to learn more about how to protect myself from phishing with nothing addressing any of my specific concerns.<\/p>\n

Fuck you very much, Amazon.<\/p>\n

One of the things that i hate about the whole online vendors thing is that we’ve lost customer service completely. What happened to the customer is always right ethos? What happened to being really conscious of valued customers? ::sigh::<\/p>\n

In the meantime, i’m really concerned about how the phishers got that email address and i have no idea how that might have happened. Did Amazon send the address to one of the used book people that i bought books from? How else might someone have gotten that address? Hrmfpt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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