A grieving mother was left distraught by Amazon after a laptop bought to plan her child’s funeral disappeared in an alleged scam – despite the website claiming to protect the purchase with a one-time password.

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    10 months ago

    I’m not really sure how the OTP would prevent thefts, as demonstrated by this article.

    Another common way to do this is for drivers to deliver the box, take a picture to ‘prove’ it was delivered, then pick it back up.