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Amazon busted?

bigred

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Got this while trying to go to amazon.com:

www.amazon.com normally uses encryption to protect your information. When we tried to connect to www.amazon.com this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect credentials. This may happen when an attacker is trying to pretend to be www.amazon.com, or a Wi-Fi sign-in screen has interrupted the connection.
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Just wondering if it's me.....
 
My understanding is that Amazon was swept up in a 12 location set of raids by the DEA, FBI, and BATF. Now, I haven't seen any evidence that Amazon actually did anything, so it may just be a matter of wrong place wrong time. We'll have to wait until they release the indictments.


:)
 
Sounds like a man-in-the-middle warning. Is your network secure?
 
lol

Geez you download just a teeny weeny bit of stuff via bit torrent and.......

Happened for me for a couple other sites but seems to have gone away. Curious. Might be a Vivaldi thing (the browser not the composer). Anyway thx for replies.
 
bigred said:
Got this while trying to go to amazon.com:



Just wondering if it's me.....
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Local news tonight (Orlando) had a story on about fake e-mails purporting to be from Amazon but with http instead of https in the email address. And which are scams for your credit card to be used by the ******** who do that ******!!!
 
Nah this was me going to httS amazon.com, but thx the same
 
I had to fix a similar problem for someone today, It was their anti virus causing it.
It was checking traffic as it came in and the browser thought certificates for HTTPS sites were bogus.
I used the option in the AV settings to re apply its own certificates and it fixed it.
 
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bigred said:
lol

Geez you download just a teeny weeny bit of stuff via bit torrent and.......

Happened for me for a couple other sites but seems to have gone away. Curious. Might be a Vivaldi thing (the browser not the composer). Anyway thx for replies.
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Yeah, I'm running Vivaldi full-time and I've gotten the same warnings from Amazon and a few others.

I jumped over to Chrome and didn't get any warnings.

So, my conclusion is that it's an internal browser check-thingy going on.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
It's a phishing scam:

There's a new phishing scam targeting online shoppers that you need to know about this holiday season.

The thieves are sending out bogus emails that look like they're from Amazon, telling buyers their order cannot be shipped.

I got one the other day supposedly from PayPal that looked pretty slick. But they had a uk address and didn't use my name, something PayPal always does.

And there's this: beware of scam on buying canon lens

The web page works fine for me.
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Yes, that's true, but that's not what bigred is reporting, AFAICT.

Here's a screencap of what I think he's seeing:


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The Norseman said:
Yeah, I'm running Vivaldi full-time and I've gotten the same warnings from Amazon and a few others.

I jumped over to Chrome and didn't get any warnings.

So, my conclusion is that it's an internal browser check-thingy going on.
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ah thx for confirmation. Frak and I thought I'd found my new browser. :mad:
 
bigred said:
ah thx for confirmation. Frak and I thought I'd found my new browser. :mad:
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There certainly might be a simple work-around; I at least wouldn't abandon Vivaldi only on this.

It's a kick-ass browser. I just simply use Chrome to go to Amazon for now; personally, I'll use Chrome until I get tired of it or the situation resolves. I could go looking for other solutions or maybe people in the Vivaldi community already have one. I haven't looked yet, though, so I don't know.
 
If you are happy that it is Amazon you are conbecting to thrn put sn exception in the browser so it accepts the certificate. Otherwise check your anti virus, re apply its certificate, there will be something in the settings.
 
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