Sounds like a scam to me. I'd log into Amazon NOT using their link, and see if there are any messages in your account.
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'The Message'
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Jessica - Dec 12, 2005 7:40:22 am PST #5955 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Dec 12, 2005 7:43:06 am PST #5956 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You might want to forward the email to Amazon.
Vonnie K - Dec 12, 2005 7:45:05 am PST #5957 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Yeah, right? It sounds suspicious. Plus, under the link, there is this message:
After responding to the message, we ask that you allow at least 72 hours for the case to be investigated. Emailing us before that time will result in delays. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter.
"Don't email us to inquire if this is legit," like way to raise suspicion, dude. On the other hand, the link provided goes something like, blah blah amazon.com/exec/... ending with sign-in-secure/html and it takes me to what appears to be an amazon.com page. Still, if the registration does get suspended, I imagine I'd be able to reinstitute it somehow. Maybe I should call their customer service number or contact them through email...
ETA: Thanks for the advice, everyone. I shall email Amazon on their website and see if they've sent something like this. I doubt it.
TomW - Dec 12, 2005 7:48:38 am PST #5958 of 10003
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
The URL has been spoofed to look like a legit amazon URL. It's a scammedy scam scam scam.
Vonnie K - Dec 12, 2005 7:52:34 am PST #5959 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
The link Tom gave has the essentially the same message as the one in my email. Whew. Thank Jebus I asked here first before hitting "send", 'cause I started filling out the reply before realizing that this sounded fishy.
Consuela - Dec 12, 2005 8:19:43 am PST #5960 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I always assume any email that asks me to go somewhere and punch in information is phishing.
So far nothing bad has happened as a result of this position.
Fred Pete - Dec 12, 2005 8:47:05 am PST #5961 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Coming in late (returning from lunchtime walk) to say it's a scam.
Trudy Booth - Dec 12, 2005 11:18:37 am PST #5962 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'd be happy with it just doing my homework for me.
I'm sure your current iPod is a mere attachment away from writing "as above as above as above".
Nutty - Dec 12, 2005 1:01:29 pm PST #5963 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Exciting thermostat news! Okay, not that exciting.
New thermostat is not compatible with the old heating system. (Relay valves are the confounding factor.) Old thermostat seems to have chosen an extremely inconvenient time to give up the ghost, so no amount of endless rewiring would have made that work. Currently have the raw wires hanging out of the wall, completing a circuit, which I have on a kitchen timer so that I'll remember to separate them before the house becomes an oven. (We might have attached the wires to a light switch I had, but it was a 3-lead switch, so Stupendous Eric the electrician decided against it.)
Aforementioned Stupendous Eric is calling up Honeywell to bitch them out on my behalf, and to find a model of thermostat that is compatible with elderly valve systems. Yes, until then (hopefully no later than tomorrow), I will be closing and opening the "please heat my house" circuit manually. Hence the kitchen timer.
The cat is giving me grateful looks, now that the walls are gurgling again.
DXMachina - Dec 12, 2005 1:43:37 pm PST #5964 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yikes.