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Post by Juliet on Nov 25, 2010 22:32:26 GMT
I had a phishing email today which purported to come from Amazon - it was very convincing, much better than anything else like that I've seen.
The subject was "Amazon order cancelled" with a reference number, and the text of the email basically just said "your order has been successfully cancelled" - it didn't ask for any personal details so it looked very genuine, and it had a link which looked as though it went to Amazon (but I could tell it didn't by hovering my cursor over it).
If you get a similar one, don't click on the link and think you're logging in to Amazon, just delete it or send it on to the real Amazon to deal with.
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Post by Auricula on Nov 25, 2010 23:41:56 GMT
Thanks Juliet  |
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Post by MamIDdau on Nov 26, 2010 10:29:25 GMT
I keep getting ones from various banks telling me someone's accessed my account. Good luck to them I say seeing as I don't have a bank account with them!
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Post by Juliet on Nov 26, 2010 13:55:34 GMT
I get loads of those too - and ones pretending to be from Paypal - the different thing about this one was that it was soooo much more convincing. Apart from the fact that I actually use Amazon, especially at this time of year, it also wasn't badly spelled or alarmist, unlike most of these things, and it didn't ask me for any details - it was exactly the sort of email I'd expect Amazon to send if I'd really cancelled an order with them. It fooled my email's spam filter, and it actually fooled me for a couple of seconds - I normally just delete them without opening them but I opened this one before I realised. I can see a lot of people clicking on the link in it and thinking they're logging in to Amazon to say that they haven't cancelled an order ...
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