jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a pink cloth I received in the mail from Jamaica, NY. I had no idea why I received it. Yesterday, I received another "gift."

This one was accompanied by a note. They thanked me for ordering from them (in China) and said they were send this gift while the item I ordered is being sent. What I received was a nice metal keychain. I've ordered several pens from China, and I don't know which company sent this.

Anyway, it wasn't a scam, so if you receive something similar, it might be okay.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Key operator: might...

rogerl Loc: UK (Harrogate, North Yorkshire)

It is a scam - it's been featured on British TV. They send you a trivial item which then enables them to post a favourable review in your name for more expensive items. Possibly means they've hacked one of your online accounts - check Amazon first & maybe change your password.

RoswellAlien

Get out quick!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

But I've lived here for over fifty years, and I like the neighborhood.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I don't like changing my passwords. I use Password123 for everything. It's so easy to remember.

RoswellAlien

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rogerl Loc: UK (Harrogate, North Yorkshire)

Which might be why they may have been able to hack your account ...!

AndyBob Loc: St. Louis

You can confuse things by changing it to: Pa$$w0rd123. Much more secure ...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, I've used odd combinations of whatever the keyboard offers - no words. I also have LastPass suggest passwords - totally impossible to remember a dozen of them.

neillaubenthal

Not really. Cracking programs are smart enough to check all of the standard letter/number/symbol substitutions. All you really need is long because length is your friend. Make it long and include the 4 basic password food groups. Once you get over 17 or so long brute force is the only effective cracking method so the longer the better. It might be true that completely random is better than a same length but rememberable one...but the difference between a billion years and a billion and 25 years is negligible. Best way these days is take 3 words of 5 to 6 letters. Capitalize a letter in each, put a symbol between each and a couple numbers on the end. For example a memorable one might be Woody*sTreet*Faucet1029...23 long and 10 billion trillion centuries to crack because brute force method of trying every password is the only viable cracking method. Leaked passwords, dictionary attach, rainbow tables all fail...length is your friend. You can even use your street number since as long as numbers are included to expand the character space it doesn’t really matter which numbers you pick and brute force just tries them in order.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Thanks for that. My main problem is entering passwords, especially on different devices. If LastPass doesn't fill it in, I have to look at my list on the computer. If I'm on a Kindle, it's hopeless.

I heard of a good keeper called Bit Warden. I'll take a look at that. It works on all devices.

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

Passwords on UHH from years past...

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-609212-1.html

quagmire Loc: Greenwood,South Carolina

make them long with symbols and type them backwards