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It's very easy to spoof email addresses. Moreover, I too get many such calls and they are usually over phone. If Amazon starts using emails as evidence, sellers

It's very easy to spoof email addresses. Moreover, I too get many such calls and they are usually over phone. If Amazon starts using emails as evidence, sellers will move to other methods that are hard to trace. And methods that are hard to trace, are vulnerable to being faked.

Chris2048 6y ago
> sellers will move to other methods that are hard to trace Just disallow it. Buyers won't care.
DoctorOetker 6y ago
Amazon itself could spoof emails, so that it simultaneously detects consumers that bite, discarding their feedback and thus removing the incentive to try and bribe consumers for positive or negative feedback. The most elegant solution would of course be sybil free identities, ... but how do we allow for companies to possess an email adress or identity? by the concept of capacities ("hoedanigheid" in dutch): we would need to formalize the concept of communicating in a specific capacity such as saying something as a citizen, saying something in the capacity as a superior role in a company to someone with an inferior role etc... Consider those superiors, doctors, ... occasionally (or systematically) abusing their power. For example a citizen is entirely free to ask another citizen for a sexual favor, but depending on jurisdiction a superior can not ask this of a subjugated employee. Either the favor is explicitly asked in the role of a citizen, in which case the receiver can safely discard the message without getting accused of disobeying a superior, or the favor is explicitly asked in the capacity of a superior in which case a crime may have been commited and the receiver can demonstrate it. This is a relatively simple example but for the greyer areas it localizes which people in a company actually crossed the line and forces all employees regardless of level to think and consider the legality of what they are asking from or being asked by another employee. For example who decided to fake emissions tests at some car company?

Chris2048 6y ago

> sellers will move to other methods that are hard to trace Just disallow it. Buyers won't care.

DoctorOetker 6y ago

Amazon itself could spoof emails, so that it simultaneously detects consumers that bite, discarding their feedback and thus removing the incentive to try and bribe consumers for positive or negative feedback. The most elegant solution would of course be sybil free identities, ... but how do we allow for companies to possess an email adress or identity? by the concept of capacities ("hoedanigheid" in dutch): we would need to formalize the concept of communicating in a specific capacity such as saying something as a citizen, saying something in the capacity as a superior role in a company to someone with an inferior role etc... Consider those superiors, doctors, ... occasionally (or systematically) abusing their power. For example a citizen is entirely free to ask another citizen for a sexual favor, but depending on jurisdiction a superior can not ask this of a subjugated employee. Either the favor is explicitly asked in the role of a citizen, in which case the receiver can safely discard the message without getting accused of disobeying a superior, or the favor is explicitly asked in the capacity of a superior in which case a crime may have been commited and the receiver can demonstrate it. This is a relatively simple example but for the greyer areas it localizes which people in a company actually crossed the line and forces all employees regardless of level to think and consider the legality of what they are asking from or being asked by another employee. For example who decided to fake emissions tests at some car company?