Samstag, 24. Januar 2015

Email Phishing (Example Amazon)

There are things in business I do not understand. One of them is phishing and identity faking.

Today I had a phone call to my local amazon support. I recently got some phishing emails that I would like to filter. Without filtering I spend usually about a minute checking if this really is an email from amazon. It might be important. However, I always check the given links in the emails and find out that is SPAM & phishing.

So, there are possibilities for amazon to circumvent this. I know that there are several companies that have PGP keys so that one can use encryption with authentication when having email contact. Why do such companies like amazon, ebay etc. do not offer this service of communicating securely with them?

P.S.: After writing this article I found this german blog post. Amazon knows its problem for long.