wherein Liz tidies a small bit of old digital flotsam
Over the past few weeks, I've been getting a handful of spam emails claiming to be from Amazon.com. The thing is, they've been coming to my fandom Hotmail account, which is not associated with my Amazon account, so obviously there's no way they could be real...
Except I just remembered today that I do, actually, have a secondary Amazon account under an alias that's associated with my fandom email. I opened it back in... I want to say 2001, and only used it for a month or two. IIRC, it was meant to let me review books that I was embarrassed to admit to having read but did want to say something about? I don't remember the details at all, but I think that was the general notion.
Anyway, today I reactivated the alias account (because obviously I still have the email! I just needed to reset the password) and then promptly told Amazon to please close it down. There is no sense in having useless digital flotsam drifting about in one's wake, after all.
Also I will now be able to automatically delete any future pseudo-Amazon spam messages without having to double-check that they're fraudulent. :)
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Except I just remembered today that I do, actually, have a secondary Amazon account under an alias that's associated with my fandom email. I opened it back in... I want to say 2001, and only used it for a month or two. IIRC, it was meant to let me review books that I was embarrassed to admit to having read but did want to say something about? I don't remember the details at all, but I think that was the general notion.
Anyway, today I reactivated the alias account (because obviously I still have the email! I just needed to reset the password) and then promptly told Amazon to please close it down. There is no sense in having useless digital flotsam drifting about in one's wake, after all.
Also I will now be able to automatically delete any future pseudo-Amazon spam messages without having to double-check that they're fraudulent. :)
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