If you’ve been receiving unsolicited emails from Amazon, be careful. The company is warning customers that a new email scam is targeting its customers. The scamsters use fake Amazon email addresses to send out spam messages, asking for personal information such as credit card numbers and other personal information. If you’re not sure whether you’ve received an email from Amazon, please check your spam folder and see if there’s anything suspicious in there. If not, please don’t take any action and just stay safe online.
Thankfully, if a similar phishing email ends up in your inbox, there are a couple of easy ways to identify it as spam.
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But before we dig into this particular phishing attack, know that we DO NOT recommend you open any email that you suspect to be spam or click on links found within the message. Instead, immediately report the email, mark it as spam, and delete the message.
The first thing you should always check before clicking or tapping links in an email is the sender’s email address. Although the address can be spoofed, in our case, it wasn’t. Combined with the sender’s name appearing as “Donna Hughes’s First Site” and odd spacing in the email’s text, it’s easy to tell something isn’t quite right, but only if you slow down and look at the fine details first.
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To reiterate, you should never click on a link that you’re suspicious of or think might be spam. And if you do, don’t enter any personal or credit card information. Instead, close any tabs or windows that were opened, mark the message as spam, and permanently delete the email.
Be safe, and don’t click on any links that appear even remotely insecure.
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