[GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

[David Thornton]

It it possible that an advertisement can "know" the page it was deployed in?

Or even just some properties of the page it was displayed in?

Via this means an advertiser could know you had just , or were about to buy
X.

>From there, the world is your oyster.

David

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:50 PM 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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