Amazon must be missing me

Amazon must be missing me - really!

Christmas goods are appearing on shop shelves now and email offers are filling the inbox -but that's not really news. What's news to me is Amazon.com must be missing me as they have sent me email telling me they have products that would interest me - really!

You see, being such a big spender (a whopping £90 in just 12 months) on Amazon.co.uk they (Amazon.com) have got this jealousy hang up right before Christmas and sent me SPAM - really!
On the otherhand it may be a test - they've been looking at my LinkedIn profile recently and perhaps want to test my information assurance knowledge.

So, if you're reading, the email had no obligatory unsubscribe or update preference option and I didn't give Amazon UK permission to share my details. By the way, since I use DuckDuckGo most ads are irrelevant and would I want to import Bluetooth earphones and pay all that shipping - really!

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