[GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

[Don Tai]

These social engineering fraud methods are increasingly sophisticated. Why
break into your house when you can do the same from the comfort of North
Korea/China/wherever and a bit of location misdirection? I find these
social engineering phishing methods quite fascinating. These big companies
resell their data willy nilly, so who can predict what phishing schemes
people can think up.

I use 3 browsers: FF, Chrome and Tor. I banish all Google-related activity
to Chrome. I encourage as much misdirection and mayhem of user activity as
possible.

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 15:50, Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On 1/15/20 3:46 PM, Peter King via talk wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> Yep that's it.
> Here is what I got.
> >
> > Dear Customer,
> >
> > We attempted to deliver your item at 1:30pm on 14th January, 2020.
> > (Read enclosed file details)
> > The delivery attempt failed because nobody was present at the shipping
> > address, so this notification has been automatically sent.
> >
> >
> > If the parcel is not scheduled for re-delivery or picked up within 72
> > hours, it will be returned to the sender.
> >
> > Label Number: (Read enclosed file details)
> > Class: Package Services
> > Service(s): (Read enclosed file details)
> > Status: e-Notification sent
> >
> > Read the enclosed file for details.
> >
> > UPS Customer Service.
> >
>
>
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