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@gtalug.org
<mailto:talk@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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