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charisstomaI received from an interest group this email:
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: Amazon charitable donations
On Mar 15, 2014, at 9:38 PM, name removed for privacy wrote:
> Amazon has started a program where they contribute 0.5% of your purchases to an organization of your choice. I chose the NRA Civil Defense Fund. If you buy from Amazon, make sure you’ve chosen a worthwhile charity.
Do you have a url or menu location for getting to this data?
A responding email gave that url and there's a nice little link to what looks like the Amazon site complete with being able to see what is stored in my wish lists and shopping cart. But I'm a suspicious person and I haunt Amazon for work as well as other reasons. So wading through the, for me not very clear, options to try to contact Amazon. I got this back within the 12 hours response time their site promised:
Amazon
Your Account Amazon.com
Message From Customer Service
Hello,
The e-mail you received wasn't from Amazon.com. For your protection, do not respond to it, and do not open any attachments or click any links it contains.
We recommend that you open a new e-mail and attach the e-mail you suspect is a fake, then send the e-mail to stop-spoofing@amazon.com.
If you responded to the e-mail or visited a linked website but didn't provide any personal information (such as your login or password), your Amazon.com account information should still be safe. However, if you did respond or if you visited a forged website and entered your Amazon.com login and password (or any other personal information), we recommend that you update your Amazon.com password immediately by going to Your Account (http://www.amazon.com/your-account) and selecting "Change Account Settings." If you provided financial information, you may want to contact your bank or credit card provider.
We also recommend running anti-virus or anti-malware software whenever you receive a suspicious e-mail, especially if you opened an attachment or visited a website that was linked in the e-mail.
To learn more about ways to protect yourself from phishing, go to our Help pages:
http://www.amazon.com/phish
We look forward to seeing you again soon.
Best regards,
Sakthivel.R
I did go in and change my Amazon password even though I hadn't logged in. That being able to see my CORRECT Amazon wish list and shopping cart didn't inspire confidence in my other information there not being hacked too.
The group that had this posted is paranoid and when I posted back to them, I got this- "Why would they go out of their way to tell you how you can distribute some of their cash to others? Sure, they created the program, but like most marketing, companies would prefer that it gives them a PR benefit without actually costing anything." A friend signed me up onto this group's site and I find it amusing/scary/interesting so haven't taken myself off their list.
So then I Googled a little more. *sighs* And found:
http://fundraisingcoach.com/2013/10/30/amazons-smile-windfall-nonprofits-yearend-fundraising/
So THEN I went to the stop-spoofing@amazon.com site and asked about the fund raising link from above including that link for reference.
BECAUSE I am suspicious.
Am waiting for their reply.
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: Amazon charitable donations
On Mar 15, 2014, at 9:38 PM, name removed for privacy wrote:
> Amazon has started a program where they contribute 0.5% of your purchases to an organization of your choice. I chose the NRA Civil Defense Fund. If you buy from Amazon, make sure you’ve chosen a worthwhile charity.
Do you have a url or menu location for getting to this data?
A responding email gave that url and there's a nice little link to what looks like the Amazon site complete with being able to see what is stored in my wish lists and shopping cart. But I'm a suspicious person and I haunt Amazon for work as well as other reasons. So wading through the, for me not very clear, options to try to contact Amazon. I got this back within the 12 hours response time their site promised:
Amazon
Your Account Amazon.com
Message From Customer Service
Hello,
The e-mail you received wasn't from Amazon.com. For your protection, do not respond to it, and do not open any attachments or click any links it contains.
We recommend that you open a new e-mail and attach the e-mail you suspect is a fake, then send the e-mail to stop-spoofing@amazon.com.
If you responded to the e-mail or visited a linked website but didn't provide any personal information (such as your login or password), your Amazon.com account information should still be safe. However, if you did respond or if you visited a forged website and entered your Amazon.com login and password (or any other personal information), we recommend that you update your Amazon.com password immediately by going to Your Account (http://www.amazon.com/your-account) and selecting "Change Account Settings." If you provided financial information, you may want to contact your bank or credit card provider.
We also recommend running anti-virus or anti-malware software whenever you receive a suspicious e-mail, especially if you opened an attachment or visited a website that was linked in the e-mail.
To learn more about ways to protect yourself from phishing, go to our Help pages:
http://www.amazon.com/phish
We look forward to seeing you again soon.
Best regards,
Sakthivel.R
I did go in and change my Amazon password even though I hadn't logged in. That being able to see my CORRECT Amazon wish list and shopping cart didn't inspire confidence in my other information there not being hacked too.
The group that had this posted is paranoid and when I posted back to them, I got this- "Why would they go out of their way to tell you how you can distribute some of their cash to others? Sure, they created the program, but like most marketing, companies would prefer that it gives them a PR benefit without actually costing anything." A friend signed me up onto this group's site and I find it amusing/scary/interesting so haven't taken myself off their list.
So then I Googled a little more. *sighs* And found:
http://fundraisingcoach.com/2013/10/30/amazons-smile-windfall-nonprofits-yearend-fundraising/
So THEN I went to the stop-spoofing@amazon.com site and asked about the fund raising link from above including that link for reference.
BECAUSE I am suspicious.
Am waiting for their reply.
