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You're lucky to get your phone OTP. I can't make any account changes currently because the OTP never arrives.
Going to have to bite the bullet and make an expensive phone call from SA to USA !
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I generally avoid Amazon but I do watch Twitch. I think it is ridiculous that Twitch has a higher security barrier with OTPs than my private webmail!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I like the "...if you do not wish to take advantage of this maybe you know someone who would..."
FOAD
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If I were to forward it to anyone, it would be my boss. Along with a suggestion that they make sure never to use this idiot.
I actually did do something similar to that once. A coworker of mine quit; and management decided to try a new recruiter to hire a relacement. That lackwit spammed me, the guy who left, everyone at his new company, and from other gossip I picked up almost every other dev in town with the advert.
I initially found out about how massive the spam burst was because the day after I got the message and :facepalm:ed I ran into my former coworker and mentioned it to him. He then told me about he and his entire company getting spammed as well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Tautology
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I get those once in a while as well. It just confirms my opinion of most people in general, and recruiters in particular.
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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Just received 2 emails: urgent requirement to operate an agricultural implement in crop production fields ... because I live in Canada, I guess.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Give him your private email then :P
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IF they could actually do anything useful they wouldn't be recruiters.
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Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me [^]
Some photos of the early Dylan: [^].
A memory I treasure is from the winter of 1963: I was walking home late one night, after I got off my job in Greenwich Village (waiter in a bistro where tourists came to see "folk-singers" most of whom were too stoned to do much more than flail their guitar and mumble), back to my "pad" in the lower East Side ... it was snowing, and, as I went by Gerdes Folk City [^] nightclub, I stopped and gawked through the window at Bob on stage, with harmonica.
My Muse and First-True-Love, Beatrice, was with me; she worked as a waitress at a bar in the village near my bistro. We huddled together swaddled in army surplus wool jackets eyeballing the venue our meager tips did not allow us to enter 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 24-May-21 13:30pm.
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Good god the man ages gracefully.
What a legend, I started listening to him when I was a teen...1964 or thereabouts.
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So did I - I like to think I have everything he's ever released but I doubt I have - I do have 38 albums though - a good friend of mine once said - he has a way of making rubbish sound interesting 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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He is a genius but the only drawback I see is his voice, he's a mediocre singer.
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But it suits his songs - the guy is a genius - sometimes I feel he's just singing to me
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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First, some background story. There's a guy that does some work for me when I'm away for an extended period of time. Then when COVID started up, I tried contacting him to no avail, including his last known telephone number, so I just figured he was dead or very sick from COVID.
Fast forward to today, and I get a message from his E-mail account that didn't say anything about him being gone. In this message, he said that he had a new E-mail account, but it was the same account he had been using for a while. Upon reflection, I started to get suspicious. In my response to that E-mail, I had asked him for his updated telephone number (since when I had tried to contact him last year, he didn't answer or respond to my voice messages). If he responds with his telephone number, I'll call to confirm it's him - and if not, then I'm going to the FBI.
I should say that I checked the full header of the message he had sent to me, and it checks out as being from his account - the only thing I'm wondering about is if "he" is a hacker.
Is there anything else I should consider about this situation?
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If you are getting a feeling that something is not right, then going to the authorities is a wise move, IMHO.
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You are right to be suspicious about this, but I would not necessarily assume that your correspondent has been hacked. It could be that he migrated everything (including the auto-reply message  ) from an old account.
I would go to the FBI if and only if you (a) get a phone No. from your correspondent, and (b) it turns out not to be him.
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 got an E-mail response, and he spoke of something that only he would know (that I know), so it's looking OK - but no telephone number  . I asked him for the number, just so I can hear his voice.
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I'd say that it's looking more suspicious. remember that a hacker would have access to any mails you sent to your correspondent, and so could impersonate him over e-mail. In your place, I'd ask for the phone number, explaining why you want it. If you don't get a number then, it may be time to go to the authorities.
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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One of my sons had his email a/c hacked and the hacker started sending out invoices in his (my son's name). The first that he knew about it was when he received an invoice allegedly from himself. As I own his domain, I was able to get in and reset things for him (and notified the ISP).
When my father died (Covid, early last year), I went into his account, send email to his regular correspondents to let them know (again, he was using a domain that I owned and I'd set up his email originally). I only had one officious reply from a well know high street company (like sogra backwards) who were sending him junk mail - they wanted a certified copy of his death certificate before thy would consider stopping sending to him.
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jsc42 wrote: I only had one officious reply from a well know high street company (like sogra backwards) who were sending him junk mail - they wanted a certified copy of his death certificate before thy would consider stopping sending to him.
Similar when my mother died... I notified answering to all messages I found for the last couple of years and everything that came afterwards for a year too.
One association didn't bother to answer or to take any action (deleting from the address list), and continued sending spam. I forwarded the Email I wrote, the 3 emails from them after that, another email saying it again and referencing the previous one and all 9 emails from them after my second notice to the consumers protection agency and wrote them a third email saying that the next email would come from my lawyer...
Never heard from them again.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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jsc42 wrote: I only had one officious reply from a well know high street company (like sogra backwards) who were sending him junk mail - they wanted a certified copy of his death certificate before thy would consider stopping sending to him.
I assume you sent them an invoice for however much a certified certificate would cost + markup for your time and effort and then setup a rule to send an auto-reply stating that the message was being forwarded to something like reportspam@ftc.gov (I just made this up now) and then delete it afterwards.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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jsc42 wrote: When my father died ...
#include <ianal.h>
I assume that the executor notified all his business contacts (bank, mortgage society, utilities, ...), of his death, and closed out his accounts with them. Once that is done, just close the e-mail account.
Any spammers can enjoy the "bounce" messages from the domain.
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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