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Either there's an upsurge in Amazon phishing emails or the phishers only got my email address recently.
I've had about half a dozen phishing emails today purporting to be from Amazon regarding my "seller" account.
To start with I don't have a seller account.
The other giveaway sign is that although the links are similar to Amazon domains, they aren't Amazon domains.
They all seem to be subdomains of by.ru, which appears to be some sort of free hosting solution based in Russia (I don't speak Russian, so I'm only making an educated guess)
Unfortunately, while Amazon do have a facility for reporting phishing emails it is clearly not aimed at the "casual" end user or anyone who is short of time. It consists of a rather convoluted series of web forms instead of a simple email address.
While the likes of Paypal, Ebay and most of the major financial institutions make it relatively easy for even a novice to report phishing emails Amazon dare to be different.
While they may be getting the reports in from honeypots etc., surely it would make more sense to facilitate end user reports?
Am I missing something?
I've had about half a dozen phishing emails today purporting to be from Amazon regarding my "seller" account.
To start with I don't have a seller account.
The other giveaway sign is that although the links are similar to Amazon domains, they aren't Amazon domains.
They all seem to be subdomains of by.ru, which appears to be some sort of free hosting solution based in Russia (I don't speak Russian, so I'm only making an educated guess)
Unfortunately, while Amazon do have a facility for reporting phishing emails it is clearly not aimed at the "casual" end user or anyone who is short of time. It consists of a rather convoluted series of web forms instead of a simple email address.
While the likes of Paypal, Ebay and most of the major financial institutions make it relatively easy for even a novice to report phishing emails Amazon dare to be different.
While they may be getting the reports in from honeypots etc., surely it would make more sense to facilitate end user reports?
Am I missing something?
One of the nice features on Amazon's US site is finally coming to the UK store - pre-order price guarantee.
Basically if you pre-order an item the "guarantee" means that you are rewarded with the lowest price possible, so if an item is listed at one price when you order and it drops before the release date you'll actually get a refund.
Pretty cool!
Basically if you pre-order an item the "guarantee" means that you are rewarded with the lowest price possible, so if an item is listed at one price when you order and it drops before the release date you'll actually get a refund.
Pretty cool!
For the geekier of you who maybe using Amazon's web services the news that Amazon is now peering with several Irish providers at INEX may come as good news!
You can check the peering matrix here
As I'm running several sites that pull quite a bit of data in from Amazon's backend this is good news !
EDIT: I meant to link to Paul's blog post
You can check the peering matrix here
As I'm running several sites that pull quite a bit of data in from Amazon's backend this is good news !
EDIT: I meant to link to Paul's blog post
