Amazon called me today
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Managed to keep them on the phone while sitting in the sun having lunch. Took them ten minutes to explain how to turn on the loudspeaker on my phone. I then said I need to answer the door, find my glasses, feed the cat, tell him about my son who is a drug addict and won’t talk to me. They gave up after about 30 minutes. I’m easily amused.
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My Grandad got done by someone claiming to be from Microsoft. He gave them access to his PC and realised straight away it was a scam and they blackmailed him to pay £120 and disconnect which he did. B*stards
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Just curious, is this a good link or not? if in doubt why are you posting this?
The url looks dodgy as heck, but you're a mod and you posted it and that makes me think it might be real.
Edit: put the download on that site through virustotal and it's a trojan: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file...1c4828725a9763e1c72b84a3a128e4061d1?nocache=1
you really shouldn't link bad urls like that, especially with sarcasm which some people can miss.
at the very least it should be in non-hotlinked with a warning on it.
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I'm not sure if you're getting it.
Your post was sarcastic.. not everyone will get it.
The url looks dodgy.. but when a mod is posting the link, it looks credible.
I disagree about the site looking dodgy. The design alone doesn't look that bad, I had to double check the file on virustotal to find out.
I don't understand why you think posting a link to a malware site is a good idea.
Your post was sarcastic.. not everyone will get it.
The url looks dodgy.. but when a mod is posting the link, it looks credible.
I disagree about the site looking dodgy. The design alone doesn't look that bad, I had to double check the file on virustotal to find out.
I don't understand why you think posting a link to a malware site is a good idea.
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I was called by someone claiming to be from Amazon (it was clearly a recording) saying I had been charged for Amazon Prime, rather than asking me to pay for it. I hung up but then checked my account in case I had inadvertently accepted a free trial of Prime that had rolled over to paid for. Guess what? Nothing!
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I've had that call countless times although not recently. It's obviously a scam as whilst I have three telephone numbers Amazon doesn't know any of them
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I haven't been called by scammers pretending to be amazon.
But I have amazon business contacting me repetively that looked like a phishing scame. The email comes from a domain called buyforbusiness.uk which has no website but the nominet whois but their nameservers are below:
The stripped text email is below, you can see that all the links go to genuine amazon site apart from the unsubscribe email. Apparantly nominet does not require business .co.uk & .uk to require details to be public any more.
Amazon Business
But I have amazon business contacting me repetively that looked like a phishing scame. The email comes from a domain called buyforbusiness.uk which has no website but the nominet whois but their nameservers are below:
Code:
ns-1334.awsdns-38.org
ns-1682.awsdns-18.co.uk 205.251.198.146
ns-272.awsdns-34.com
ns-631.awsdns-14.netThe stripped text email is below, you can see that all the links go to genuine amazon site apart from the unsubscribe email. Apparantly nominet does not require business .co.uk & .uk to require details to be public any more.
Amazon Business
Code:
(https://www.amazon.co.uk/business/register/org/landing?ref_=b2b_reg_email_go_25spring1)
Shopping on Amazon for your business?
Get a FREE Amazon Business account and make the most of our Spring Promotion:Get 25% off your first purchase worth up to £200. All you need to do is use code 25SPRING22*.
Create FREE Account (https://www.amazon.co.uk/business/register/org/landing?ref_=b2b_reg_email_go_25spring1)
Reshape buying for your organisation:- VAT invoicing: View products and sellers with downloadable VAT invoices, stored automatically in your account.- Business Prime: Get unlimited, FREE delivery on eligible orders for everyone on your business account, plus more benefits.- Quantity discounts: Enjoy great discounts, starting from just two units, on over 60 million products from the most trusted brands.Start saving with Amazon Business today.Kind regards,The Amazon Business Team
(https://www.facebook.com/AmazonBusiness/)
https://twitter.com/AmazonBusiness)
(https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-business/)
* Terms and Conditions (https://business.amazon.co.uk/en/cp/lpa-25spring?ref_=b2b_reg_email_go_25spring_t+c) apply.
Click here to unsubscribe (https://ins-trk.buyforbusiness.uk/profile/S-5358@O_7qyf9HnT5NSiNGXt9V3p7h-BeGLkXL-OuwrJ0wL6I.@1)
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I'm still erring on this being a phsishing email and I stupid clicked the ubsubscribe link there.
But I just checked out the nameservers and it is amazon's nameserver. https://who.is/whois/awsdns-38.org
But the domain buyforbusiness.uk is registered wiht an unknown registrar GANDI.NET
But I just checked out the nameservers and it is amazon's nameserver. https://who.is/whois/awsdns-38.org
But the domain buyforbusiness.uk is registered wiht an unknown registrar GANDI.NET
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Thats interesting had two this week after ordering off Amazon seems like every time I order couple of days later I too get an email about business accounts ......... they just get blocked now
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Today, I got another of those "We've received information that you've been in a car accident" calls.
I answered "Where did you get that information from please?", ready to hit them with GDPR requests.
A couple of seconds later "Oh, sorry about that, we'll take your number off our list."
We shall see, but that seems to be the way to deal with them.
I answered "Where did you get that information from please?", ready to hit them with GDPR requests.
A couple of seconds later "Oh, sorry about that, we'll take your number off our list."
We shall see, but that seems to be the way to deal with them.
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Gdpr is useless without enforcement and nobody to complain to.
The cookie notification is a complete joke too. It should have been a browser/device level thing from the start. What apple is doing. The end user sets their device with their preferences and forces the websites to adhere.
The person you spoke to requesting gdpr compliance almost certainly just hamgs up and moves onto the next call without submitting any gdpr removal request. They won't be the ones calling you again so they don't care about tmyour data. Also they are probably involved with dodgy data collection tasks, fishing for claimants and selling the data onto an accident management company
The cookie notification is a complete joke too. It should have been a browser/device level thing from the start. What apple is doing. The end user sets their device with their preferences and forces the websites to adhere.
The person you spoke to requesting gdpr compliance almost certainly just hamgs up and moves onto the next call without submitting any gdpr removal request. They won't be the ones calling you again so they don't care about tmyour data. Also they are probably involved with dodgy data collection tasks, fishing for claimants and selling the data onto an accident management company
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