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Tell HN: Apple sent gift receipt to my son. Be cautious

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Background:

  * Wife and I used to have same credit card number
  
  * I still have old number- she has a different one
  
  * CC *may* be connected to the account?  Only Apple would know, but it seems like it must be
  
  * Wife and sons share Apple account- phones, itunes
  
  * My Apple account is different
  
  * Everybody has individual email

I purchased some items including an iPad Pro from the Apple store yesterday in Peabody MA. I walked out with a hardcopy receipt. I did not ask for electronic receipt; I did not give any email address to the salesman.

Youngest son told me yesterday that he got the receipt emailed to him. He's psyched. He thinks he's getting an iPad pro for Christmas. I hope his heart isn't set on it- it's not for him. He's going to be a disappointed young man.

I'm not sure how, I'm not sure why, and I'm not hating on Apple. I'm just sharing a cautionary tale.

Maybe your son is playing you and he didn't really get an e-receipt from Apple, but he knew that you went to the Apple Store and is giving you a signal that he wants an iPad Pro for Christmas by claiming that he unexpectedly got an iPad Pro e-receipt from Apple.

No he didn't know I went. He also knew what else I bought. I went there to get Apple earbuds for him + other stuff. He did ask for the earbuds.

I'm thinking they linked the credit card number to the account. I don't know why he got the receipt instead of my wife, but that may be a separate issue in their shared iTunes account. She obviously has it set up so she gets the receipts.

When you purchase something at an Apple Store they associate your Credit card with an email if you give it for the receipt. Extremely dodgy that they are keeping this information after the purchase.

I must say I'm surprised. That's why I'm letting the community know.

Some further information: I purchased an International charging kit in the UK and gave an email address I had set up specifically for during my travel. I recently bought a Superdrive using the same credit card and the sales person asked if I wanted to send to that same email address.

This is more of a PSA than anything else.

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