I want to share an experience that I had a few months ago, to see if anyone had something similar. I have an AWS account that I use to upload stuff to Glacier

I want to share an experience that I had a few months ago, to see if anyone had something similar. I have an AWS account that I use to upload stuff to Glacier and leave it there. My monthly fee comes to about $0.20/mo and that's been going since around 5 years (previously it was just on S3). The data I store there is not encrypted (not that they would be looking at it, right?), nor is anything sensitive/illegal at all. Aside from that, I ocasionally spin a cheap EC2 instance to test some new binary before installing it or things like that. Anyway, around March I received three emails (they were spaced like 6 hours or so apart so I've read them all at once) and the subject was something like "Important Notice regarding your AWS Account, Urgent! Open Now!". The first thing I thought was sh*t, my account was hacked and now I owe a million dollars to AWS. To my relief that wasn't the case, but they wanted me to send them many documents that I consider personal and for no reason at all. I replied something like "Is something wrong?" and they said it was standard procedure, which is weird because I've never knew of anything like that. Things eventually went to "send us a scan of your passport or we will terminate your account", passport because that's the only ID I told them I had. I eventually told them to piss off, I figured that $0.20/mo and the things I had there are not worth the worry of sending that data to someone hiding behind an email. They didn't reply anything and then... nothing happened. It's been half a year since and everything is business as usual. It was weird, and I never could make sense of what they really wanted, but anyway, just thought of sharing that when I read this guy's experience.