[GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

[Alvin Starr]

On 1/16/20 2:13 PM, David Thornton via talk wrote:
> 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
True.
But the ordering is from within the amazon application for fulfillment 
by amazon.
I had 1 order that was fulfilled by the vendor and that one did not 
generate a phishing email.

Also these are not advertisers sending me spam to buy the latest LG TV 
or some-such.

This is phishing hoping to infect my system and own it or make it part 
of a botnet.


>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:50 PM Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto: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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