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by krampian 3798 days ago
I'm concerned that names and addresses alone seem to be enough for these guys to do meaningful ID theft with. The phone book is full of names and addresses anyone can get their hands on easily. Even these guys in India - there's whitepages.com. Not sure why they're going to all the trouble of trying to game Amazon's customer support.

On that note, I order alot from Amazon and throw out their boxes in the trash outside all the time. Sometimes I notice that neighbors (presumably) take those boxes for their own use before trash pickup comes along. All of them have my name and mailing address on them...