How did they hack my Amazon Purchase List?
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Hi All, I have been ticked off my some scally trying to use my account to buy stuff. Cancelled the purchases, the card, changed Amazon, eBay & Paypal passwords and email account. The one thing I am left thinking over is how they managed to buy stuff on Amazon and it not appear in my purchases or my cancelled orders, I think if they got in to my email they could have deleted the mails from Amazon before I saw them, if I put in the actual order number it appears(!), I have mentioned it to a human at Amazon who didn't seem bothered (well on their pay, I wouldn't be either, but) All I can say is check your email very carefully, on a seperate device I only found it because I got a load of One Time Pass code generated on my phone!! Glenn
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Hi All, I have been ticked off my some scally trying to use my account to buy stuff. Cancelled the purchases, the card, changed Amazon, eBay & Paypal passwords and email account. The one thing I am left thinking over is how they managed to buy stuff on Amazon and it not appear in my purchases or my cancelled orders, I think if they got in to my email they could have deleted the mails from Amazon before I saw them, if I put in the actual order number it appears(!), I have mentioned it to a human at Amazon who didn't seem bothered (well on their pay, I wouldn't be either, but) All I can say is check your email very carefully, on a seperate device I only found it because I got a load of One Time Pass code generated on my phone!! Glenn
it's getting tricky, just today got a message from paypal about scams lot's of links in the message (how to spot fake email) that point to "epl.paypal-communication.com" legit or not? yeah I know, I can look up the domain name to check, (being lazy I just trash canned it.) but it's odd, that is one of they ways the fakes operate, that is by having legit looking links. so if even the companies themselves are confusing people this way, and then telling us not to be confused this way, can understand why less savy (or in my case possibly less lazy) can be fooled. ------- generally if I see something from one of my providers that sounds legit-ish I log in (not using the email links) to check things appear normal. on that I agree it's odd those Amazon orders didn't appear in your list. I'd take that up with Amazon. - and who knows, they may spot you a $10 voucher or similar if you sound unhappy (but not abusive) enough. last time I complained about something few months back (forgot what) they did that for me.
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it's getting tricky, just today got a message from paypal about scams lot's of links in the message (how to spot fake email) that point to "epl.paypal-communication.com" legit or not? yeah I know, I can look up the domain name to check, (being lazy I just trash canned it.) but it's odd, that is one of they ways the fakes operate, that is by having legit looking links. so if even the companies themselves are confusing people this way, and then telling us not to be confused this way, can understand why less savy (or in my case possibly less lazy) can be fooled. ------- generally if I see something from one of my providers that sounds legit-ish I log in (not using the email links) to check things appear normal. on that I agree it's odd those Amazon orders didn't appear in your list. I'd take that up with Amazon. - and who knows, they may spot you a $10 voucher or similar if you sound unhappy (but not abusive) enough. last time I complained about something few months back (forgot what) they did that for me.
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paypal-communication.com looks like a scam domain, NOT paypal. The registrant is hidden by registering through MarkMonitor Inc. (The same company that registered the domain that was being pinged every 10 minutes.) paypal.com is registered to paypal. I can not imagine a legitimate company doing anything other then registering their domain directly - too much risk of being blackmailed for use of your own domain.
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paypal-communication.com looks like a scam domain, NOT paypal. The registrant is hidden by registering through MarkMonitor Inc. (The same company that registered the domain that was being pinged every 10 minutes.) paypal.com is registered to paypal. I can not imagine a legitimate company doing anything other then registering their domain directly - too much risk of being blackmailed for use of your own domain.
I agree, looks wrong (well really everything looks right except those links) it really is a legitimate looking message (even the spelling / grammer is spot on, and it's correctly personalised) was briefly tempted to click one of the links to see what happens but no, been doing this too long to even do that just for fun (no banking/shopping passwords are saved in my browser anyway, but...) as mentioned: if "paypal" et.al send me a message that sounds important I'll log on to paypal.com directly (not even via bookmark), NEVER via an email link, NEVER ...even when I can see that link address in the email status bar ... - dunno if for instance they can pad those with say chars etc, don't wanna find out.
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paypal-communication.com looks like a scam domain, NOT paypal. The registrant is hidden by registering through MarkMonitor Inc. (The same company that registered the domain that was being pinged every 10 minutes.) paypal.com is registered to paypal. I can not imagine a legitimate company doing anything other then registering their domain directly - too much risk of being blackmailed for use of your own domain.
Microsoft is notorious for doing this. Just this hour I had to go to Microsoft.com to get something work related, and it redirects me to "login.microsoftonline.com". Now I have to stop what I'm doing and verify that "microsoftonline.com" is actually "microsoft". Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid? Why do you do that?
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Microsoft is notorious for doing this. Just this hour I had to go to Microsoft.com to get something work related, and it redirects me to "login.microsoftonline.com". Now I have to stop what I'm doing and verify that "microsoftonline.com" is actually "microsoft". Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid? Why do you do that?
Oh, and in addition to microsoftonline.com, the page loads stuff from "office.com" and "mem.gfx.ms" and "s-microsoft.com". Apparently these teams were not aware that Microsoft already has a domain "microsoft.com" for them to use.
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Oh, and in addition to microsoftonline.com, the page loads stuff from "office.com" and "mem.gfx.ms" and "s-microsoft.com". Apparently these teams were not aware that Microsoft already has a domain "microsoft.com" for them to use.
I get regular email from Microsoft and I think they are legit, but I'm not sure. They're mostly about some Azure service. GMail puts them straight into the spam folder. But I still think they're legit :~
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Microsoft is notorious for doing this. Just this hour I had to go to Microsoft.com to get something work related, and it redirects me to "login.microsoftonline.com". Now I have to stop what I'm doing and verify that "microsoftonline.com" is actually "microsoft". Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid? Why do you do that?
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Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid?
Doesn't the question answer itself? As I see it, Microsoft today is a company that couples incredible technical sophistication with best practices that would shame a Mom-and-Pop programming shop. For example, the idea of letting your customers (AKA Windows 10 Home users) perform the QA on your software is one of the most hare-brained ideas ever to come out of a marketing droid's mouth, and I hope that they change course before it's too late.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Hi All, I have been ticked off my some scally trying to use my account to buy stuff. Cancelled the purchases, the card, changed Amazon, eBay & Paypal passwords and email account. The one thing I am left thinking over is how they managed to buy stuff on Amazon and it not appear in my purchases or my cancelled orders, I think if they got in to my email they could have deleted the mails from Amazon before I saw them, if I put in the actual order number it appears(!), I have mentioned it to a human at Amazon who didn't seem bothered (well on their pay, I wouldn't be either, but) All I can say is check your email very carefully, on a seperate device I only found it because I got a load of One Time Pass code generated on my phone!! Glenn
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