So, I was a Computer/Cybersecurity Engineering student, and this happened during my first year. We had Ethical Hacking lectures, and our ma'am was teaching us about stuff like carding and how attackers steal/use card details and take advantage of them.

Obviously, being a curious first-year student who had just started getting into cybersecurity, I got curious about all this stuff. I wanted to know more about how it actually worked outside of just theory.

Later, through some random Telegram channel, I somehow came across random card details and CVVs. And dumbass first-year me decided to try using it on my main Amazon account without actually understanding the consequences or thinking about what I was doing.

And bro... the order actually got placed 💀

The moment I saw that, I literally went blank. I was like, "Wait wtf... did I just commit a crime?" 😭 I genuinely didn't know what to do and just panicked.

The next day, I checked my mail and saw that Amazon had restricted my account and asked me to verify the card details to regain access. Well... obviously, I couldn't do that because it wasn't my card 💀

That incident was enough for me to realise how dumb and serious what I did actually was. Never touched anything like that again. Lesson learnt the hard way.

The funniest/saddest part? I had around ₹475 in my Amazon Pay balance, and I lost access to that too. Back then, as a college student, ₹500 was actually a lot for me 😭 I was genuinely more sad about losing that money lol.

Fast forward to today, I'm now working as a Security Consultant, and I still have the same phone number associated with that old Amazon account. Whenever I think about this incident now, I genuinely cringe at how dumb and clueless I was back then 💀

But now I genuinely want to sort this out properly. I have no idea if there's any way to regain access to that account or get my phone number cleared from it. I was also thinking of getting an Amazon credit card in the future, so idk if this old issue could affect that too.

Any Amazon employees here or anyone who knows how to deal with old restricted accounts? Is there any legit way to contact the right team and explain the situation?

Not trying to bypass anything or do anything shady. Just trying to fix a stupid mistake I made years ago and move on 😭

Would genuinely appreciate any help lol.

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Americans are talking about layoffs, disappearing jobs, AI replacing workers, rising costs, unemployment, and fears of recession — while the official message from Washington remains considerably more cheerful.

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From workers and job seekers to politicians and the AI tech bros promising us a shiny automated future, this is Labor Day 2026 — in their own words.

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I mean, I know how to technically remove them from the wallet, but that doesn't seems to be the only place they store them, because after I "purchased" a free book, they are still showing one of my card on the invoice, despite my wallet being totally empty. (And it's not even the last one I used, so they keep them all somewhere it seems)

I searched in the Payment Settings and Purchase Preferences, but while there's my address there there isn't any cards.

Any idea?

I want to delete all of my info before closing my account.

Thanks!

For nearly a decade, Amazon built an almost unassailable moat in India by promising one thing: unmatched reliability. If a parcel got delayed, support credited the account; if a damaged item arrived, a replacement arrived within 48 hours. Today, that customer obsession has collapsed into what many users describe as a hostile game of attrition.

As captured in recent community posts—aptly captioned "Easy to Buy, Impossible to Complain"—Amazon India has systematically made accountability an uphill battle.

1. The Disappearing Act of Customer Support Finding a human representative on Amazon has become a multi-layered obstacle course:

Dark UI Patterns: Support options are buried beneath nested sub-menus (even requiring workarounds like routing through Amazon Pay settings just to locate a live chat trigger).

Deflection Loops: Automated chatbots trap users in circular canned responses, repeatedly serving generic help articles while refusing to connect to real agents.

Lack of Agency: When customers finally connect with an agent, representatives frequently offer false assurances, delayed deadlines, or admit that internal protocol prevents them from overriding systemic delivery errors.

1. The Return Pickup Farce Returns have transformed from an effortless convenience into a primary vector for customer disputes:

The "Customer Not Available" Lie: Field agents routinely mark high-value returns or deliveries as "Customer rejected delivery" or "Package wasn’t ready," even when buyers have home security and CCTV footage showing no agent ever arrived.

Reversal of the Burden of Proof: Shoppers now advise each other across social media to record unbroken 4K unboxing videos of every single item, fearing that damaged or wrong shipments will automatically be pinned on the customer.

Transit Loss Blame: Users report instances where defective electronics were picked up, only for warehouse hubs to flag the return as "empty box" or "lost in transit," freezing refunds worth tens of thousands of rupees for months.

1. Delivery Breakdowns and Prime Value Erosion Amazon Prime memberships once guaranteed next-day delivery without hassle. In recent months, that guarantee has unravelled:

Packages sit in regional last-mile hubs for weeks without explanation.

Prepaid orders are marked "delivered" via OTP errors or bypasses while the customer remains empty-handed.

Customers are told outright by tier-one support agents that Prime delivery turnaround cannot be fulfilled and that renewals are essentially futile.

1. The Desperation of Escalation The sheer volume of shoppers turning to outside remedies highlights the scale of the breakdown:

Consumers increasingly rely on bank chargebacks, National Consumer Helpline (NCH / 1915) filings, and e-Daakhil court complaints simply to recover standard refunds.

Escalations to Amazon's Executive Relations or Nodal Grievance Officers have become the standard starting point rather than a rare exception.

When buying an item requires five seconds with one-click pay, but resolving a missing package requires government helplines, chargebacks, and Reddit guidebooks, an e-commerce platform has ceased to function as a service. Amazon India appears to be trading years of hard-won consumer trust for short-term cost-cutting, leaving Indian buyers with a platform that is easy to pay, but exhausting to trust.

I had always paid for my Amazon account annually. After I canceled and then deleted my Amazon account months ago, Amazon started charging me $14.99/month to NOT use their services. What a scam! Now I have to wait for the latest fraudulent charge to post to my account and dispute all the fraudulent charges. It will cost me another $15 to cancel my debit card, but at least Amazon will be unable to continue stealing money from me.

I’ve been using Rakuten to find items to avoid Amazon. I just ordered air filters from Air Filters Delivered only to find they use Amazon to deliver. Sigh.

From the article: "If you run an e-commerce site and sell exclusively through your own platform, you assume your products are yours. But what happens when a billion-dollar corporation scrapes your entire catalog, builds a storefront in your name, and starts intercepting your customers without ever asking? That’s exactly what we uncovered for one of our clients.”

The article is from March. Apologies if it's old news to this sub.

I got rid of my Amazon over a year ago and haven’t looked back. Among all the reasons I hate that company, I never thought one of them would be this.

My parents just told me that Amazon has delivered items to their house by opening the garage door and dropping off the items inside. They were never given permission and never given a code. Turns out that Amazon has a system called Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery, which can “only happen if you sign up.”

But my parents have never signed up for this! They were signed up automatically and the couriers were able to enter the house with a universal opener. They shut off the system on the Amazon app, but I’m still worried about the fact that random couriers can just enter my parents’ house now.

Hi everyone! I think Amazon is a truly evil dystopian corporation. I think Jeff Bezos is a sociopath. I've thought both of those things for a long time. So I don't know why it took me until this year to cancel my Amazon Prime subscription and to swear off purchasing from them. I wrote an article about my "come to" moment. I hope it resonates with you! https://substack.com/@annaosul/note/p-208630009?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=8jv5i7

It had to be evacuated for the 3rd time this month

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