- The Verge, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:28 PM
Chris Welch, news reporter for The Verge has been getting Amazon email receipts for another person, despite his attempts
to stop receiving them. In a long post on the site, Welch explains how these are not phishing emails, but actually transactional emails for another Amazon customer. On an almost daily basis he is
seeing the Kindle Fire activity of this customer named Carl. He tried to get Amazon to help, but the customer service team just told him to change the password, which as he writes, "It's not my
Amazon account to muck with. It's Carl's. I'm hopeful Amazon's account specialist can restore order. Maybe I shouldn't be. A few hours after our chat, I got an email crediting me a refund for a Nexus
6 case I bought last week."
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