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[Barbara]

I received this email from Amazon this morning...

 

From: "Amazon.com"

To: barbara@omlet.co.uk

Sent: Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 9:35:39 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal

Subject: Amazon.com: Your Account Information

 

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I thought I ought to post this email to warn those of you with Amazon accounts to be careful about replying to any emails like this that you get. The reason I know this is a fake email is because I don't have an Amazon account . I wonder how many people with Amazon accounts will fall into the trap and give away their account information.

 

Be careful out there! It's a tricky old world.

[Rhapsody]

'bits of code' don't get all technical on us!!

[..lay a little egg for me]

I'm always getting this kind of thing. My rule is never, ever, follow a link in an e-mail to any website. (except, of course the notifications from omlet saying I've had a reply to a thread...I think those are safe! )

[bluekarin]

The amount I get from banks that I apparently have accounts at! Which I know I don't. I can see why some less that IT savvy peeps get caught out though.

[Dodge]

Check this out

 

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Spammers_make_%A32m_each_a_year&in_article_id=397079&in_page_id=34

[Guest]

And it's Amazon.COM - and I'd guess most of us use Amazon.CO.UK. I get a lot of these from Paypal too and always notice the .COM on the end.

[Paola]

Thank you Barbara

[Egluntyne]

I am always being asked to update my personal details with this bank account and that.....and I am not with any of them.

 

Thanks for the tip off Barbara. As Christmas approaches we are more likely to do online shopping, and might let our guard down.

[The Dogmother]

My hotmail account stops all of these, well 90% of them, but I get loads at work

 

I always ignore phishing emails.

[Barbara]

I get lots of "important" emails from all the banks under the sun too as well as Paypal (which I also don't have an account with ) but this is the first one I've received from Amazon which is why I thought I ought to warn everyone. As Egluntine's said, in the run up to Christmas and you're possibly ordering lots of things from Amazon, it's easy to drop your guard. The email comes, supposedly, from Amazon.com but the return email address is delivers@amazon.co.uk so it's easy to be fooled.

[Helly Welly]

I got something similar from Paypal the other day. I reported it to them and they confirmed it was a phishing email. Trouble is, i've been using Paypal a lot lately so although i was suspicious, there is the chance i could have been fooled and i'm sure plenty of other people could be too. Be careful out there!!

[Olly]

Timely advice. I got an email from Amazon yesterday and I was convinced it was a spoof as I couldn't remember having ordered anything. I then realised it's part of my Christmas shopping that's been delayed waiting for all items to be ready!

 

It's easy to forget/get confused at this time of year as we're probably all using eBay, Amazon and PayPal a lot more than usual. Usually the spammers will give themselves away because of grammatical or spelling errors in the email, but this one looks particularly convincing.