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Amazon.com phony email - watch out!
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Twice in the past 10-days or so, I received an email that appeared to be from Amazon.com saying that my order had been successfully canceled. I did NOT click on the link inside the email.
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Forums » Money » Scams & Fraud » Amazon.com phony email - watch out!
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Amazon.com phony email - watch out!
posted at May 14, 2012 11:25 AM EDT
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Twice in the past 10-days or so, I received an email that appeared to be from Amazon.com saying that my order had been successfully canceled. I did NOT click on the link inside the email. In fact, I pretty much ignored the first of these emails but when the second one popped up in my in-box, I went to the Amazon.com website and they had a notice there about these emails. They are NOT from Amazon.com; they are bad. If you do click on the hyperlink in the email, the real Amazon.com says that: 1) it will install malware on your computer, and/or, 2) it will ask for your sign on information for Amazon.com. Bottom line, if you get one or more of these e-mails, delete it. |
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Re: Amazon.com phony email - watch out!
posted at May 14, 2012 12:04 PM EDT
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I have received numerous cancellation messages purporting to be from Amazon cancelling a book sale. These were books I never ordered, and they don't show up on my legitimate Amazon account page. I checked several of the books, and I found that they don't even exist. Amazon has no listing for them at all, so I know they are bogus. I assume that the sender wants me to click on a link and that it will then ask me to log in to my Amazon account. I reported the emails to Amazon. |
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