On your Amazon home page, go to:
Your Account › Change Account Settings › Advanced Security Settings
Turn on 2-step Verification.
It won't completely solve social engineering, but it can't hurt.
Your Account › Change Account Settings › Advanced Security Settings
Turn on 2-step Verification.
It won't completely solve social engineering, but it can't hurt.
"As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able to spot phishing attacks from a mile away, I would have thought my accounts and details would be be pretty safe? Wrong."
Are you sure the author enabled 2FA on his Amazon retail account, or was it only enabled on his AWS account? The two systems do not share the same 2FA.
FYI I enabled 2FA on my Amazon retail account and when I called customer support they verified it. Once the verification failed and they refused to give me support.
Anyone else confirm a similar story with 2FA and support? Anyone willing to explicitly test this out?
In any case, I will leave my comment so that folks who come across this thread have a handy reference for turning on 2FA on their Amazon accounts.