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Hi All,
I have been ticked off my some scally trying to use my account to buy stuff. Cancelled the purchases, the card, changed Amazon, eBay & Paypal passwords and email account. The one thing I am left thinking over is how they managed to buy stuff on Amazon and it not appear in my purchases or my cancelled orders, I think if they got in to my email they could have deleted the mails from Amazon before I saw them, if I put in the actual order number it appears(!), I have mentioned it to a human at Amazon who didn't seem bothered (well on their pay, I wouldn't be either, but)
All I can say is check your email very carefully, on a seperate device I only found it because I got a load of One Time Pass code generated on my phone!!
Glenn
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it's getting tricky,
just today got a message from paypal about scams
lot's of links in the message (how to spot fake email) that point to "epl.paypal-communication.com"
legit or not?
yeah I know, I can look up the domain name to check,
(being lazy I just trash canned it.)
but it's odd, that is one of they ways the fakes operate,
that is by having legit looking links.
so if even the companies themselves are confusing people this way,
and then telling us not to be confused this way,
can understand why less savy (or in my case possibly less lazy) can be fooled.
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generally if I see something from one of my providers that sounds legit-ish I log in (not using the email links) to check things appear normal.
on that I agree it's odd those Amazon orders didn't appear in your list.
I'd take that up with Amazon.
- and who knows, they may spot you a $10 voucher or similar if you sound unhappy (but not abusive) enough.
last time I complained about something few months back (forgot what) they did that for me.
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paypal-communication.com looks like a scam domain, NOT paypal.
The registrant is hidden by registering through MarkMonitor Inc. (The same company that registered the domain that was being pinged every 10 minutes.)
paypal.com is registered to paypal.
I can not imagine a legitimate company doing anything other then registering their domain directly - too much risk of being blackmailed for use of your own domain.
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I agree, looks wrong (well really everything looks right except those links)
it really is a legitimate looking message
(even the spelling / grammer is spot on, and it's correctly personalised)
was briefly tempted to click one of the links to see what happens
but no, been doing this too long to even do that just for fun
(no banking/shopping passwords are saved in my browser anyway, but...)
as mentioned:
if "paypal" et.al send me a message that sounds important I'll log on to paypal.com directly (not even via bookmark), NEVER via an email link, NEVER
...even when I can see that link address in the email status bar
... - dunno if for instance they can pad those with say <bs> chars etc, don't wanna find out.
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Microsoft is notorious for doing this. Just this hour I had to go to Microsoft.com to get something work related, and it redirects me to "login.microsoftonline.com". Now I have to stop what I'm doing and verify that "microsoftonline.com" is actually "microsoft".
Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid? Why do you do that?
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Oh, and in addition to microsoftonline.com, the page loads stuff from "office.com" and "mem.gfx.ms" and "s-microsoft.com".
Apparently these teams were not aware that Microsoft already has a domain "microsoft.com" for them to use.
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I get regular email from Microsoft and I think they are legit, but I'm not sure.
They're mostly about some Azure service.
GMail puts them straight into the spam folder.
But I still think they're legit 
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Basildane wrote: Hey MICROSOFT! Are you stupid?
Doesn't the question answer itself?
As I see it, Microsoft today is a company that couples incredible technical sophistication with best practices that would shame a Mom-and-Pop programming shop. For example, the idea of letting your customers (AKA Windows 10 Home users) perform the QA on your software is one of the most hare-brained ideas ever to come out of a marketing droid's mouth, and I hope that they change course before it's too late.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I guess you’re regretting signing up to that midget porn site now.
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You matter! (Unless you multiply yourself by c2, then you energy)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes, relatively speaking.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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huh?
I'm gonna need a momentum to figure that one out
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You don't have to be Einstein to figure it out... or maybe you do?
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Looks like someone needs a spacetimeout to think about the gravity of the situation!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Don't wait too long or you might become one with the Force singularity.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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But maybe then I'd go out with a big bang!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That's a theory.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Is that what Scotty says when he pushes a cadet into the warp core?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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if the force is 'with/in the jedi'
and force increases with velocity
how cool it must be to be a jedi traveling at (or as near as possible) light speed?
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lopatir wrote: how cool it must be to be a jedi traveling at (or as near as possible) light speed?
Not for very long, I would imagine. Unless said jedi is traveling through interstellar space. In which case I hope he/she's got the right equipment.
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That Jedi probably was the first to say 'I have a bad feeling about this!' 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'll spin on that one.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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The thief! He plagiarised it before I thought of it! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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look on the bright side,
instead of only repeating your own messages by repeating others' you'll have a lot more "new" material.
Cheer up, OG. You know what they say. Some things in life are bad. They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble. Give a whistle. And this'll help things turn out for the best. And...
always look on the bright side of li...
oh, wait!
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