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No. You can put anything you want in text or graphics on the screen. You need to send people to a secure amazon.com login page and pass an OAuth token.


I agree. If my Amazon credentials are stolen, here's what I have at risk:

- My credit card details (multiple)

- Shipping / billing addresses

- My private order history 5+ years

- Access to all my AWS instances

- Amazon Cloud Drive data

- And I'm probably forgetting a few...

With that being said, even services like Mint.com require handing over your bank's password to them even today. It's really not a good practice even if they are stored securely.


Tried Shelfflip, minutes later received this email from Amazon:

"Your Amazon.com password has been changed"

This is an important message from Amazon.com.

As a precaution, we've reset your Amazon.com password because you may have been subject to a "phishing" scam.

Here's how phishing works:

A scam artist sends an e-mail, which is designed to look like it came from a reputable company such as a bank, financial institution, or retailer like Amazon.com, but is in fact a forgery. These e-mails direct you to a website that looks remarkably similar to the reputable company's website, where you are asked to provide account information such as your e-mail address and password. Since that web site is actually controlled by the phisher, they get the information you entered.

Go to amazon.com/phish to read more about ways to protect yourself from phishing.

To regain access to your Amazon customer account:

1. Go to Amazon.com and click the "Your Account" link at the top of our website.

2. Click the link that says "Forgot your password?"

3. Follow the instructions to set a new password for your account.

Please choose a new password and do not use the same password you used with us previously.

Thank you for your interest in Amazon.com.


Oh yeah - I checked it out before reading the comments here. Stupidly. Sleep deprivation sucks for cognition.

Got the same exact email...




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