Maybe, but the person must then have planned to intercept the package at his door, which is very confusing.
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Every time I hear about these kind of things happening to people, it freaks me the heck out and I get all paranoid about all of my personal information. Best of luck to you on getting this sorted out.
I checked my Amazon browsing history and there was no evidence of me clicking ever on an Iphone. But I still don't think I fell for a phishing scam. I only logon from the Amazon home page and never from any emails. I searched all my old spam emails and such and I didn't find any evidence of any fake Amazon emails either. I wonder if if I contact Amazon security they could tell me from what IP address the purchase was made. When I contacted Amazon earlier, they just sent me an generic email asking for me to change my password. No one else has access to my computer here. I live by myself with my dog.
Phishing is really just a new social engineering way to get passwords. It's not automatic. You would have had to do much more than open the email and clicking a link. You would have been fooled into typing your info to someone. People here are confusing phishing with much more sophisticated attacks that would have to rely on a vulnerability of Amazon. They have no such vulnerabilities. I just checked today. This sounds like old school fraud to me. That's why Amazon won't believe you unless you convince them you did not give up your password. I think the best you can do is ask them to log the event and get the fedex or UPS info and who would have delivered it. Report same thing to your Credit Card company. Or just don't sweat it.
I feel like if this is a scam it comes from the seller side of things. There's no other party that would benefit at all from this scenario other than the seller. Regardless of whether it is delivered or not, or where it ends up, they still make their sale. Though I obviously have no idea how they could orchestrate something like this...
yeah, makes sense. But not really. Your idea: OP uses the same password for several sites. One gets stolen. Russian mafia finds out it works on Amazon as a Premium Buyer and voila, password is up for sell like a stolen credit card. The big caveat in this. Amazon as middle man holds the money in escrow. As soon as the "buyer" rejects the purchase, Amazon as the middle man will stop transfer. This is actually what happened. OP got his money back. Merchant got nothing. The flaw is still why ship to the OP unless you planned to grab it in transit. OP has a few days after arrival to reject merchandise before merchant's transfer is cleared. Nothing works until merchandise is released for shipment, hence why it was next day service. They the thief grabs merchandise in transit somehow. that's why I think its a delivery man scam.
It might be more direct if you ask their CS online. I think if it's an automated attack, the criminal could be scoping out the system. If he really wanted to steal, changing email, password and address would be a more deliberate crime. Or it could be a glitch.
It was the UPS man. He hacked your Amazon account so he could deliver the package and then screw your wife. NSFW Spoiler Better get a Bane mask asap.
You might be on to something A dog would likely be ordering bones at Amazon. Like "I want bones", or in primitive dog speak it might come out as: "I bones" Add Amazon's auto-correct to that and you get "iPhones," and then the choice between buying Locked bones and Unlocked bones is a quite obvious one for the dog to make. And the 4s is simply the dog thinking he's ordering multiple bones. So, it's quite conceivable a dog asking Amazon for "bones" ends up a order for unlocked iPhone 4s.
