New Amazon.com & Facebook phishing scams
 

I just received a very official phishing email from Amazon.com - subject line is Amazon.com - Your Cancellation (19-599-48468). I just wanted to warn anyone else that this is a scam - do not click on the link.

I also received a deactivation notice from a false Facebook account - Facebook <[email protected]>

Just a warning in case you have not seen these before.

Thanks for the warning! :)

There is one from AT&T, as well. I get them all the time. Says if you don't give them your info, your account will be cancelled. I called AT&T, it is not them!!! DO NOT REPLY to these emails!!

there is also one from paypal. so be careful.

I got tat one to .I did not trust it . We had not ordered any thing lately from Amazon. Also it said your order on May 3 was canceled it was only May 2 at the time

don't forget the one from YouTube saying "Your video is #1!"

I keep getting emails from UPS and Wal-mart!! not !!!

I got that one from Amazon. Since I do order things from Amazon from time to time, I opened it and my virus protection blocked the virus!! Boy, was that a close one for sure!!!

same thing for me. I called Amazon and they said thay had a team working on this. How do the scamers get our emails?

I have been getting cancellation notices from my "hotmail" for over a year. I always enjoy reading the absolutely odd English they employ trying to convey their point. It is such a giveaway to the phishing, even when they have the correct logos, etc. I've also gotten them for my credit cards. For those I call my 800 numbers about and forward the email to their "scam department" if requested. can't be too careful these days!

There was one in my e-mail this a.m. sent it to my DD. she is a computer expert

I also got one from Amazon yesterday.

Try using Mozilla Firefox with Adblocker Plus (both free). I haven't seen a popup ad or moving ad in years!!

it's not a question of getting your email, they just send them out to any possible email address, or they may have bought your address off a list somewhere ( when you signed up for something).

Like the bank phishing emails, you get some from banks you don't do business with. But if they send them out to 100,000 emails, they will get some people who DO use that bank. Shotgun approach.

I also got the Amazon.com scam email. did not take the bait b/c I knew I hadn't cancelled an order.

We got one of those yesterday. I forwarded it to Amazon.com

If the subject is Amazon.com, that doesn't mean they sent it. Never click on those. Write an e-mail to them yourself and tell them what you got. Lots of people try to send very "official" looking e-mails from different companies. I have been getting e-mails from my dead niece for two years, starting the day after we buried her. Someone stole her e-mail address book. Such a shame how nasty some people can be.

I wonder if this explains how I kept ordering something and upon cancellation, would try again.
After two days, I had three! of them coming and had to put in my own cancellations :shock:

Same thing happened here....good thing the security system was working!

The thing is there's _always_ a new phishing scam of one kind or another. There are probably thousands of new ones every day. Think first!!!

whenever you get a suspicious email, if you do open it, hold your mouse over any link they want you to click on. then look down the bottom left of your screen and you will see where the link will take you.

For instance it might say log in to your amazon account at www.amazon.com, but when you hover over it you will see it takes you to amazon.badevilpeople.com. Then you know it is a phishing.

I get one or two of these cancellations every day from 'Amazon' for a 'book I've ordered'. I went to Amazon and filled out an email with what they wanted the first time. I know better than to click on anything as I know I haven't ordered anything. Today I got one that was a little different - talking about how to cancel orders if you want to.

I don't even open an email unless I know where it's from. Thanks for warning. Just delete them without opening them.

I just received one of these and just deleted it.

My husband showed me how to get rid of things that pop up and won't delete. Right click on the very bottom of your monitor screen and click "Task Manager." When it pops up delete the annoying ad. It may come back but at least you can get it off your screen. Good luck.

I got one today ostensibly from "youtube services" with the subject line "your video has been approved". I didn't upload a video, so I googled around and verified that it is a scam.

Be careful out there. If you get emails from companies that normally don't send emails asking you to click on links, don't click. You can go to their website directly through your address bar and find out if the message originated from them. Snopes.com is a good place to check whether anything is for real or not.

thank you for the warning

I got the same email & so did my husband. We just deleted them w/o opening them. We knew we had not ordered anygthing from Amazon.

I got one on my yahoo account, and wrote Amazon telling them that I do not and will not have an account using that address. I didn't know if it was someone scamming, or someone who had hacked my yahoo, and was using it to purchase items. I had to change my password recently because someone used it to send out emails.

Since Amazon didn't actually send you that email, what was the point to emailing them?

As I said, my email account had recently been hacked. And with all the identity theft going on, it seemed prudent to stop any problems along that line before they start. A little preventative medicine, as it were. I was not sure that someone had not decided to hack my email and use it to make purchases, routing the items to them. Then, when the email was checked...guess whose name would come up connected to it? That is why I emailed Amazon about it. Now, should any problems arise, I am good. Does that explain it for you?

I got the one from amazon.com too, cancelling an order that was dated for the next day, lol.

I got the Amazon one yesterday, too!

I get them everyday too. I wondered if I should contact the companies! Thank goodness I keep deleting them!!!

I just got one and clicked on it to see what it would say. When you hover over the link that is supposed to take you to Amazon, if you look in the lower left corner of your screen, it will really take you to this website.

dorlak.gorodok.net/adolphus

Sounds like something from a sci-fi movie!! Definitely not Amazon. This is so easy to do, don't know why everyone does not check it out before clicking on a link.

Of course if you did click on the link, it would look like you were on Amazon, even in the address bar. They have a way of faking those things. But so far they can't fake what you see when you hover over the link.