{"id":713386,"date":"2010-04-09T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004362"},"modified":"2010-04-09T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T21:19:13","slug":"good-samaritan-emails-us-from-the-account-you-left-logged-in-on-a-best-buy-display-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713386","title":{"rendered":"Good Samaritan Emails Us From The Account You Left Logged In On A Best Buy Display iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/4-9-2010%205-16-09%20PM-thumb-237x175-39139.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Hey world: Don&#8217;t leave yourself logged in to a display product at Best Buy! One Consumerist reader found someone logged in to a display iPad at Best Buy and emailed them<strong> and us<\/strong> from the logged in account.<\/p>\n<p>Reader R says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Consumerist:<\/p>\n<p>You should have receive an email from [redacted] about not logging out of mail account on display product at Best Buy.<\/p>\n<p>I was the person that sent it to him and you. Just wanted to validate that email for you. I also didn&#8217;t want any of my personal info sent through that email.<\/p>\n<p>I really couldn&#8217;t believe someone did that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Sure enough, here&#8217;s the email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo whom it may concern:<\/p>\n<p>You decided to try out an iPad at your local best buy. But guess what? You logged into the mail app on a publicly used test product and didn&#8217;t log out?!?!?!?<\/p>\n<p>This time a good citizen has decided to alert you of your mistake. I will also be kind and log you out  Be aware and use some common sense the next time.<\/p>\n<p>Sent from your own email,<br \/>\nA good Samaritan.<\/p>\n<p>\nSent from my iPad<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Ouch! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey world: Don&#8217;t leave yourself logged in to a display product at Best Buy! One Consumerist reader found someone logged in to a display iPad at Best Buy and emailed them and us from the logged in account. Reader R says: Dear Consumerist: You should have receive an email from [redacted] about not logging out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZAe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}