08/31 - Laundry Saturday

Found this in a reddit thread this morning. This is NOT ME, this is from another user, I am simply providing the text I found:

I should also mention that my account was suspended back in 2022 and I did, in fact, send an email to that address regarding my suspension. This was their response:

Important Message from Amazon Mechanical Turk

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

Thank you for your patience while we reviewed your account. After review, we have determined that your account was suspended in error.

As such, we have reinstated your account effective immediately. We apologize for the inconvenience that this account suspension may have caused.

We appreciate your continued participation in the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace. If you have additional questions, please email us at [email protected].

Sincerely,

Account Specialist

Amazon Mechanical Turk http://www.amazon.com https://www.mturk.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/mturk/comments/1f57xdg/amazon_payments_reply_to_account_suspension/

 

My account was suspended sometime between 11:00 PM and 4:40 AM MST. when I logged into mturk at 4:40 AM I'm seeing this message -

Your Amazon Payments account has been suspended


You will not be able to use Amazon Mechanical Turk until your Amazon Payments account is in good standing. If you believe this suspension is an error, please contact Amazon Payments Customer Service to resolve this problem.

 

they’re really gonna end us all. Doesn’t seem like a matter of if but when

 

did someone put Aug up on purpose? it's the 31st

 

It also seems that the Amazon Payments site is doing the stupid “too many redirects” shit again on all my devices. Even escaped my network via 5G hotspot and my phone and it’s happening there too. Seems like whenever people have reported suspensions the Payments site is also dying in tandem

 

Oh no, you got suspended too?

 

treat it as a cyber attack, folks. it has to be. amazon just doesn't want the word out. the city of columbus tried to hide it from their people that they had an attack. Until the mayor couldn't anymore. got a huge mess down there.

 

Wow, Most of the people here are getting the ax. I wonder if I'm next. I am still able to sling surveys so far.

 

I really want to believe this but it breaks my brain to think one of the largest companies that hosts most of the world could let a cyberattack persist for a week

 

they probably are trying to keep it from going to the sales side hence, not enough workers to fix the turk side. yes, it can happen. it seemed to begin after that huge cyperattack that attacked the world.

 

Is Amazon Payments account the same as AMT account? If not, for those whose account got suspended, are they able to work on mturk?

First, the site had some problem that prevented Workers from accepting the HIT. I guess it lasted for a day. Assuming that the account suspensions are also because of some error, I wonder if it's just a coincidence that both happened in the same week.

 

oh my goodness...okay...I went to my dashboard, filled out the TO form. clicked the link to my queue. it's full of hits that I accepted last night that have a long timer, like 1-2 week timer. I'm going to try to do the hits in my queue see what happens.

edit: I was able to complete and submit a batch hit that was in my queue just now. I tried to accept a new hit on mturk manually. I got the my account isn't set up yet error page. then after I clicked the button to set it up, I got the your amazon payments account has been suspended error page.

 

Sounds like they are having severe server issues. The prospect that it's a hack is getting more likely.

 

for everyone thinking this DAC7, read about it. it is talking about EU sellars. now if you are in the EU and a seller, yeah, you're there. but we are workers probably mostly in the US, workers, not sellars, some one fed us a load of bull. I still think this is there hack. as someone tries to steal an account through SS numbers or whatever, bang, the account gets closed. that's why they are telling people to get a new account. that or they really don't know what they are doing which is more likely.
https://simplyvat.com/everything-yo...at is DAC7?,their platform to tax authorities.

 

Just got an email from MTurk

Hello,

While Mechanical Turk does use Amazon Pay for verification purposes, it is a separate Amazon service. I'm unable to assist with the creation, verification, or review of that account. You will need to contact Amazon Pay directly by emailing [email protected].

Thank you for your understanding.

Best regards,
Kamogelo ..
Amazon Web Services

 

My reply:

I have already been in contact with them and they have deferred to you, the Mechanical Turk team. I would suggest that your team needs to get in contact with the Amazon Payments team and figure out who is responsible in this event as this is affecting not only me, but a growing number of other workers who are reporting this issue on Reddit, Twitter, and as well as several Mechanical Turk forums.

Both your team and the Amazon Payments team are refusing to take responsibility for this disruption.

Attached is my email from Amazon Payments:

From [email protected]
Friday, August 30th, 2024 at 8:29 AM

To
Redacted
Friday, August 30th, 2024 at 8:29 AM

Hello, This is Dianna with Amazon Pay.

I am sorry your Mechanical Turk account was suspended. For all account suspension related inquires or questions email [email protected].

To ensure the investigations team can assist, please contact them using the email address registered to you Mechanical Turk account,as Amazon Pay Buyer Support doesn't have insight into your account suspension. We are very sorry about this.

Dianna

Amazon Payments https://payments.amazon.com

 

i doubt amazon wants publicity about this. where's all the reporters who love to write stories denigrating mturk? let's find one.

 

I also got hit by this same ban wave. Last accepted a hit at around 9pm. I knew it was coming but still