Warning email from Amazon

[jpp72]

Since I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, can someone at least offer the post number of the one that's "higher up"?

Amazon Account in your home country

• Buy a Visa/MC prepaid gift card. I prefer to buy the physical card
• Use something like this to generate an address
• Optional: Use a VPN or Smart DNS proxy (if you are paranoid)
• Create the account and use the address and gift card
• If they force you to put in a phone number, you can use a service like PingMe, 5sim, SMS-Activate or SMS-Man. I use the Conversations app on my phone with a Jabber phone number i got from JMP.chat. I did not pay to get the phone number, but I pay about $20 a year (IIRC) in Bitcoin for all the features of the Conversations app.

Amazon Account in the US, from your home country

• Buy a Visa/MC prepaid gift card. I prefer to buy the physical card. If you are not from the US, get your card from StatesCard or US Unlocked
• US Unlocked and StatesCard will provide you with a US address. For anything else, use something like this to generate an address
• Use a US VPN server or a Smart DNS proxy
• Create the account and use the address and gift card
• If they force you to put in a phone number, you can use a service like PingMe, 5sim, SMS-Activate or SMS-Man. I use the Conversations app on my phone with a Jabber phone number i got from JMP.chat. I did not pay to get the phone number, but I pay about $20 a year (IIRC) in Bitcoin for all the features of the Conversations app.

Things to know

• To subscribe to channels, you can only do it from the prepaid Visa/MC. You cannot subscribe to a channel with an Amazon Gift Card
• Once you are subscribed to a channel, you can setup your backup funds to come from an Amazon Gift Card. If your prepaid runs out of funds, Amazon will take from the Amazon Gift Card. As long as you don't unsubscribe, it will continue to work. If you unsub and want to resub, you need funds on your prepaid card.
• You can buy Movies and TV Shows with just an Amazon Gift Card.
• You cannot buy a US Amazon Gift Card from your home country. You need to go to Amazon.com to buy a US gift card, Amazon.ca for a Canadian gift card, etc... You can then gift it to your burner account.

If you want to use an Amazon Canada account to save money because of the exchange rate or simply to get stuff not available in the US on some channels like Paramount+ and AMC+ (Noticed a lot of different stuff between US and Canada for those two) but you can't get a Canadian Visa Gift card, request to follow me so you can DM me and I can buy a card for you. Quid pro quo possible depending on where you are from.

P.S. No instructions for US people who want to create US burner account as it's pretty straightforward. You can buy a prepaid card online from multiple websites, including official ones from Visa and MC

[jpp72]

No need to make another account.
Buy the gift card then when you purchase ensure all your payment methods are deleted so it defaults to the gift card then the purchase goes through. You also need to have a US address in place you can change to when purchasing. Then change back after purchase and add your original card back in.
Using a VPN also enables you to do the free downloads for things on Prime that might not be on Prime in your own country.

I don't think he's talking about making the burner account to buy the gift card. He's saying he made a burner account in case Amazon can still detect the downloading via SF.

So basically he was saying that he was able to buy a movie with a gift card. Just so happens he did it on his burner account.

[Cats4U]

I’m not sure why you are mad, I’m guessing you were doing work for them at one point and then the relationship soured but at this point blasting them all over the forms is bad show.

To quote philosopher George Santayana,

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

[phelings]

As far as I know you can use gift cards for subs. I made a burner account and I bought a movie with it.

No need to make another account.
Buy the gift card then when you purchase ensure all your payment methods are deleted so it defaults to the gift card then the purchase goes through. You also need to have a US address in place you can change to when purchasing. Then change back after purchase and add your original card back in.
Using a VPN also enables you to do the free downloads for things on Prime that might not be on Prime in your own country.

[Baker]

That's super helpful thanks.

Since I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, can someone at least offer the post number of the one that's "higher up"?

[slottedpig]

That's super helpful thanks.

no problem good luck

[DQ1]

There is a post way higher up that explains how to do it.

That's super helpful thanks.

[slottedpig]

Those of you now using a different Amazon account, how are you paying for it? Because as I see it, you can create a different account but you will need to put an address and valid payment. Both of those things identify you and match you to your main account. I guess it more steps for Amazon to take but seems like if they want to know, they will know.

There is a post way higher up that explains how to do it.

[DQ1]

Those of you now using a different Amazon account, how are you paying for it? Because as I see it, you can create a different account but you will need to put an address and valid payment. Both of those things identify you and match you to your main account. I guess it more steps for Amazon to take but seems like if they want to know, they will know.

[TheGreatOne]

off topic

Jeez sorry! No need to be rude!

[Sebastian001]

it happens with disney too. Just the processing and remux stage. The download is fast. Any ideas? It used to work amazing until a month or so ago. Should i do a complete uninstall and reinstall?

off topic

[simchris]

Downloaded 2 movies and a TV episode last night; zero issues. Latest SF. Clean install.

[TheGreatOne]

I did 3 movies before and they were almost instant, I assure you it isn’t encoding. What was your cpu usage during processing? Most likely it’s just some anomaly, just fyi even on recode the remux would be the same speed as a download.

It happens with Disney too. Just the processing and remux stage. The download is fast. Any ideas? It used to work amazing until a month or so ago. Should I do a complete uninstall and reinstall?

[Sebastian001]

I think the "RECODE" issue is resolved, back to the Amazon email or silence...

[kye]

I've only been using StreamFab for a couple of months, so I am fairly new here. Assuming these warnings have never happened before, I'm wondering if maybe Amazon was testing out a new detection system and only sent out notices to a limited number of people to start. That way they can play it safe and make sure there aren't a lot of false-positive complaints before rolling out the warnings more widely. If so, that could explain why there seems to be no pattern to who got the emails and who did not. I could be wrong, of course.