I got an email from Amazon today confirming a book I bought online today.

I also got a corresponding one from the company selling the book.

Only problem is I haven't been online today never mind bought a friggin book through Amazon!

I can only assume someone has gained access to my account somehow (never disclose passwords) and is maybe testing the water i.e. order small, check to see if it goes throu and I don't notice, then maybe change delivery address and order a flatscreen telly or just mug the postie!

Either that or there's been a mix up somewhere along the line.

Anyhoo, contacted CC company and stopped CC, removed it from Amazon account and changed password.

Quite an eye-opener though.

Running wireless with WPA encryption, MAC address filtering with available addresses locked right down so wouldn't think it would be from that.

Also if they had my full CC details i'm sure they would have done more damage than that.

:eek:

I had a simialr situation a while back except I was contacted by the bank who spotted it first.

I think you are right in your guess - The bank told me it was common to take a small payment to see if the card works before going for it on the porn and gambling sites.

Yikes! Sounds like you spotted it just in time! :(

I would be reinstalling the PC just to be safe as they could have installed a key logger or something on it to get your passwords.

Could be anything, maybe even a different pc if you have logged onto amazon from say a cyber cafe and its remembered you in a cookie.

Use a different pc to logon to the amazon account, and change your password to something really secure.

Then run an antispyware scan of your pc, and a full antivirus scan using another scanner, not the one you normally use, eg. Trend micro Housecall online scanner.

DONT follow any links in the emails, as they could be spoof phishing emails.

turns out it was genuine!

I bought a book using a computer on a customers site back in March!! during my lunch hour.

Closed i.e. down (but forgot to log out) and the session was still active 4 months later :shock:

The girl who sits there came back off maternity leave and yesterday went in and ordered a book for her new bairn...under my name!

How she never noticed - she just clicked the 'one click' option and that was that.

All sorted now - new credit card on the way, Amazon details blitzed, amount refunded and the only thing remaining was I made a **** of myself sending a grumpy email as i automatically thought it had been done 'as a laugh' when in fact it was a genuine mistake :oops:

So there you go folks - make sure you log out of Amazon as their cookies never expire!

At least my confidence has been restored in my system's security!

Duh

But plenty relief once you'd found out, eh ?

Have to say I find Amazon's one-click ordering system a bit too dangerous. Went to buy a couple of memory cards the other day and clicked on the one-click, but then realised the order had gone through before I could change quantity to 2 Then clicked on the one-click again, so have now ordered two, but also duplicating postage charges

An eye opener.

Have to say I find Amazon's one-click ordering system a bit too dangerous. Went to buy a couple of memory cards the other day and clicked on the one-click, but then realised the order had gone through before I could change quantity to 2 Then clicked on the one-click again, so have now ordered two, but also duplicating postage charges

:iagree: I always used the one click "feature" but no more, it's far too easy and far too dangerous :P

Running wireless with WPA encryption, MAC address filtering with available addresses locked right down so wouldn't think it would be from that.

:eek:

Would take minutes to crack though, so don't get complacent!

Usually more than minutes with WPA2, and much less than minutes with WEP