[GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

[Peter King]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 03:00:36PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:

> When I order something from Amazon  not long after I get emails from various
> phisherpeople claiming to be UPS or some other delivery company.
> The messages are coming through an old email address that is badly spam
> filtered.

I had that very thing happen to me on an order from Amazon about ten days
ago.  The phishing was via a note from UPS that they couldn't deliver a
package, but to get it I had to give them my credit card number ... at the
time I was surprised, since it followed close on the heels of one delivery
and right while I was waiting for another.  So, almost plausible.  But as
usual, the phishing email was so clumsily written and executed that there
was no question but that it was a fake.

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