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I receive all mails @ my domain and I get about 1 spam a day. Fastmail's spam filters are pretty good.
Do you have a good idea of the rate of false positives?
Whois is great for social engineering attackers. You get a name, email, address, and the first service to attack. Meanwhile, the ICANN is working around the clock to make it illegal for us to protect our personal information, and whois protection is becoming an increasingly niche service for registrars. For example, gandi.net (and thus Amazon) doesn't hide your name when you have it turned on. By the time you find th…
I think the bigger problem is that public information like your name and address is sufficient for proving your identity. If we make whois information private, what about phone books, property records, direct mail databases, etc. etc.
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While I would love to do that it just isn't feasible for me and probably most others. ICANN really needs to provide better controls to avoid resorting to such workarounds.
> ICANN really needs to provide better controls to avoid resorting to such workarounds. Not only ICANN but the whole financial world. Shell corporations provide no real use other than hiding money and ownership.
Any recommendation what one (as a customer of Amazon) can do today ? 2FA does not help here as someone goes through support channel which looks like bypasses 2FA Also concerned if the same trick can be applied to Amazon Cloud services, as there one can also run up a big bill pretty quickly.
If I were the OP or someone equally sure I was likely to be targeted via my Amazon account, I'd consider: Using a unique email address. Using a unique physical address (both for my account details and for my delivery addresses). Use a unique credit card (I'd probably get a refillable prepaid gift card, and set up some auto topup to ensure it's got my expected monthly Amazon bill available as "credit", but not much mo…
Think about how many people actually use Amazon services
Through sheer competition, Amazon is forcing Walmart to close over 100 stores. We only know that because Walmart is big enough to get noticed.
Remember when Walmart was the company putting local mom and pop shops out of business?
Cycle of life I suppose...
Whois is great for social engineering attackers. You get a name, email, address, and the first service to attack. Meanwhile, the ICANN is working around the clock to make it illegal for us to protect our personal information, and whois protection is becoming an increasingly niche service for registrars. For example, gandi.net (and thus Amazon) doesn't hide your name when you have it turned on. By the time you find th…
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Fastmail and Gmail support a local suffix of the form yourname+amazon@gmail.com. That's a plus character between the local name and local suffix. If you use a password manager, you can replace a predictable suffix like "amazon" with random hex value. Unfortunately, many sites borked their e-mail address validation and do not accept the plus character. (Amazon permits it.) Also, you'll ocassionally find a customer ser…
Gmail also allows yourname.amazon@gmail.com