E-mails

In my e-mail yesterday, I receieved 2 pieces of mail that are examples of things we have been learning in class. The first e-mail was from amazon.com, where I ordered the required books from for this class. Well, they must have used cookies to get information about me because they sent me an e-mail suggesting other books that I might be interested in, and this was their list:

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  The Google Story by David Vise, Mark Malseed

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Blog Marketing by Jeremy Wright

I thought that was pretty funny since these books were required for class and not necessarily something that I would be interested in, but how would Amazon be able to know that just from cookies?

The second e-mail was a fishing e-mail. I was at work when my friend sitting next to me was like, "Oh no!! Someone got my Chase credit card account number and has been using my acount!" Of course I knew right away that it must have been from a hacker fishing, but she was so convinced that it was real because of the letterhead and the links that they provided. It was only until I opened my e-mail and saw that I received an identical message that she finally believed me that it couldn't be legit. This is what it looked like:

This is the reason why I find this class so interesting: the topics we learn about are real and applicable to our everyday lives. I hope those were good examples of using cookies and fishing, if not someone correct me!