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There’s a good reason why a makeup retailer would want to cut off its best customers. Yes, it seems counter-intuitive, but there is a potentially lucrative global gray or secondary market for certain makeup items, especially limited-edition products and lines. Think of them as collectibles that you smear on your face that can sell for many times the sticker price on auction sites and/or abroad.
Why would Sephora cut off any customers, let alone Asian customers, right now? This week, there’s a 20% off sale for Sephora customers who spend more than $350 per year, which is a fabulous time to go shopping and boost your profit margin if you’re a reseller. The question for Sephora is this: how can they tell the difference between someone who is reselling and someone who just reapplies eyeshadow a lot?
Angry customers claim that in the last day or so, Sephora has been using geographic and ethnic profiling. In addition to ustomers who use e-mail providers based in China like qq.com or 163.com say that their orders have been canceled and their accounts deactivated
On Sephora’s Facebook page, you can see complaints from customers posting from Asia, the United States, and Canada who have one thing in common: Chinese surnames. Styleite took some screen grabs, and there are plenty more still adding themselves.
In a statement, Sephora blamed site issues on international bulk buyers and re-sellers. They did not say that “sounds Asian” was not one of their criteria for deactivating a user’s account, but the company does admit that some accounts were shut down for reselling erroneously.
Our website is incredibly robust and designed to withstand a tremendous amount of volume. What caused the disruption yesterday was a high level of bulk buys and automated accounts for reselling purposes from North America and multiple countries outside the US. The technical difficulties that impacted the site are actively being addressed and our desktop US website is now functioning normally. We are actively working to restore our Canadian, mobile website, and international shipping where applicable. There has been no impact on the security and privacy of our clients’ data.
The reality is that in taking steps to restore website functionality, some of our loyal North American and international clients got temporarily blocked. We understand how frustrating it is and are deeply sorry for the disruption to your shopping experience.
However, in some instances we have, indeed, de-activated accounts due to reselling — a pervasive issue throughout the industry and the world. As part of our ongoing commitment to protecting our clients and our brands, we have identified certain entities who take advantage of promotional opportunities to purchase products in large volume on our website and re-sell them through other channels. After careful consideration, we have deactivated these accounts in order to optimize product availability for the majority of our clients, as well as ensure that consumers are not subject to increased prices or products that are not being handled or stored properly.
IF your account was deactivated and you’re a Sephora customer who is VIB level (spending $350 or more per year) you can call the VIB hotline at 877-VIB-ONLY (1-877-842-6659) to sort things out. If you don’t spend that much, or you’re outside the United States, it’s not clear what you’re supposed to do.
PSA: Many Sephora customers with Asian names/registered under Asian domains are locked out of their accounts [Makeup Addiction/Reddit]
Is Sephora Blocking Customers With Asian-Sounding Last Names? [Styleite]
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This e-mail that didn’t come from Pizza Hut (in spite of the half-baked attempt to make it look that way) contains malware that will give you more than indigestion.
MainStreet reports the email claimed to offer consumers a free personal pan pizza in celebration of Pizza Hut’s 55th anniversary (despite the fact that the chain is actually 58 years old) was really a ploy to entice consumers into downloading a virus.
By clicking on the email’s “Get Free Pizza Coupon” consumers unleashed a dangerous file containing Trojan malware that can infect computers, workstations and web servers.
Officials with data and network security provider Cloudmark Security, which detected the scam last week, says that the ploy proved successful because it used consumers’ love of pizza against them, instead of the typical invoices used to spread malware.
“Everybody wants to believe in free pizza,” Andrew Conway, an employee with Cloudmark wrote in a blog post. “We are seeing an unusually high number of people taking this email out of their spam folders. Users are more than four times more likely to take this out of their spam folder than the largest recent malware spam campaign which claimed to be a notice to appear in court.”
While the email’s topic appealed to consumers, its vehicle left much to be desired in terms of imitating the pizza giant.
In fact, the email appears to be quite simple, a plain red background accented with yellow type. The offer lacks Pizza Hut’s actual logo, instead simply writing the company’s name in what appears to be comic sans.
Still, according to MainStreet, the scam evaded one hallmark of other scams: typos.
Conway says no matter how grammatically correct or appealing an email may be its best not to click on links in unsolicited emails, especially if it lands in your span folder.
“This botnet has been around since 2008,” Andrew Conway on the Cloudmark Security says in a blog. “It goes through sudden bursts of growth from time to time, and then cuts back in size, perhaps to avoid countermeasures from the security community.”
The particular botnet included in the imitation Pizza Hut email has been known to install other programs on consumers computer in attempts to gain access to email credentials, tap bank accounts or hold computer data for ransom.
Consumers who downloaded the file, but haven’t opened it could be in the clear if they simply delete the file. If the file has been opened, MainStreet suggests running an anti-virus program to remove the infection.
What You Don’t See: This Free Pizza Could Be Contaminated with a Virus [MainStreet]
[via OnGuardOnline.gov]
Have you been thinking about enrolling in a for-profit online college that saddles you with thousands of dollars of debt and no job to show for it? Then get ready to spend your ThoughtCoins and ClassPoints at a school that will still take all your money but lets you skip the classwork and guarantees you a job when you graduate.
Check out the above infomercial for For-Profit Online University, which promises to do away with all the problems of an on-campus education, like crumbling buildings and suicide in the libraries by doing away with the buildings and the libraries… and the faculty and classes.
The enrollment process couldn’t be easier — if you have a credit card, you’re actually already enrolled whether you know it or not. And just like you can spend real money to buy virtual currency in games like Farmville, your credit card can be used to purchase ThoughtCoins, which can then be turned in to purchase facts that are yours to keep (so long as you continue to pay the monthly fee).
Classes too hard? Just level up by purchasing ClassPoints. As the French might say, “Viola!”
And you can also spend your digital money to deck out your online avatar or order a sandwich from Panera. If your account is getting low, just rat out fellow students who are committing fraud and be rewarded!
And unlike those other for-profit schools that don’t want the world to know that their students fail to find employment, FPOU’s graduates are immediately employed by the school as “digital gardeners.”
“Digital gardening is a meaningful task,” explains the school’s sole employee, “in which real live human beings look at images from the Internet and then identify them in ways that bots simply can’t.”
One former student says that when he’s “in the zone” and clicking his way through image after image, the rewards can be great.
“Sometimes i look up and it’s 8 a.m. and I’ve got 1,400 ThoughtCoins in my F-pouch,” he says. “That’s like two Panera Bread sandwiches a day… plenty to keep me energized as I attack another 20-hour day of identifying images.”
One thing to keep in mind before enrolling in FPOU — Beware of Howard. Always.
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