ebay: May 2008 Archives
This year is turning out to be a bumper year for James Bond fans.
The Ian Fleming centenary has acted as a wonderful catalyst for the likes of Penguin, who are releasing a series of new covers, which are simply gorgeous.
Here's the one from Casino Royale:
It maybe new, but it's got that wonderful 60s retro feel.
The full set of books will be available at the end of May, though they haven't announced if they will be making a box set available yet.
Of course there's also the new Bond film which is set to be released on October 31st.
Earlier this year Royal Mail released a set of stamps to commemorate the centenary, while the Imperial War Museum is holding a really nice exhibition.
Of course the main thing behind Bond was the books, so you could do worse than spend some time acquiring some of the first editions. While you can get some of the first editions for as little as 30 or 40 euro there are some going under the auction hammer next Friday for prices ranging from 500 euro to ten thousand euro. More information is available on the Bloomsbury Auctions' site (you can bid via eBay)
The Ian Fleming centenary has acted as a wonderful catalyst for the likes of Penguin, who are releasing a series of new covers, which are simply gorgeous.
Here's the one from Casino Royale:
It maybe new, but it's got that wonderful 60s retro feel.The full set of books will be available at the end of May, though they haven't announced if they will be making a box set available yet.
Of course there's also the new Bond film which is set to be released on October 31st.
Earlier this year Royal Mail released a set of stamps to commemorate the centenary, while the Imperial War Museum is holding a really nice exhibition.
Of course the main thing behind Bond was the books, so you could do worse than spend some time acquiring some of the first editions. While you can get some of the first editions for as little as 30 or 40 euro there are some going under the auction hammer next Friday for prices ranging from 500 euro to ten thousand euro. More information is available on the Bloomsbury Auctions' site (you can bid via eBay)
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?
UPDATE: Over 24 hours later I got a reply from Amazon with the email address to use for reporting phishing emails.
In case anyone else needs it the email address is: stop-spoofing@amazon.com
If you forward phishing emails to that address as an attachment they get sent to their security team.
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?
UPDATE: Over 24 hours later I got a reply from Amazon with the email address to use for reporting phishing emails.
In case anyone else needs it the email address is: stop-spoofing@amazon.com
If you forward phishing emails to that address as an attachment they get sent to their security team.
