Scam targeting Amazon shoppers
If you shop on Amazon.com, listen up.
AARP is reporting that a convincing and credible looking email purportedly being sent by Amazon is currently making the rounds to inboxes of holiday shoppers.
The bogus email has the subject line “Your Amazon.com order cannot be shipped” and claims there is a problem with processing your order.
It requests you click on an attached link, which leads you to an authentic looking Amazon web page and asks you to confirm your name, address and credit card information. After entering the information and clicking on a “save and continue” button, you are redirected to Amazon’s actual website, never realizing that you have given a cyber thief full access to your credit card.
To keep from becoming a victim of this clever scheme, we recommend you follow these safety tips:
– Do not click on an embedded link located in an e-mail that appears to come from Amazon. Instead, go to: www.amazon.com and check “your orders” to determine if the details in the e-mail you received matches your order information. According to Amazon, if they do not match, the message is a scam.
– If the “from” line in the e-mail contains an Internet Service Provider other than @amazon.com, the e-mail is not from Amazon.
– Before you click anything, hover over the link and view the whole hyperlink address. Amazon only hosts payments on these three online websites: payments.amazon.com; resolutioncenter.payments.amazon.com; and authorize.payments.amazon.com.
For additional information about this scam and what to look for, visit Amazon’s help/support page.
If you received one of these fraudulent e-mails, you can forward it to stop-spoofing@amazon.com.
You can also contact the Lee County Sheriff’s Office fraud line at 239-258-3292 or email fraudline@sheriffleefl.org.
Source: Lee County Sheriff’s Office
Scam targeting Amazon shoppers
If you shop on Amazon.com, listen up.
AARP is reporting that a convincing and credible looking email purportedly being sent by Amazon is currently making the rounds to inboxes of holiday shoppers.
The bogus email has the subject line “Your Amazon.com order cannot be shipped” and claims there is a problem with processing your order.
It requests you click on an attached link, which leads you to an authentic looking Amazon web page and asks you to confirm your name, address and credit card information. After entering the information and clicking on a “save and continue” button, you are redirected to Amazon’s actual website, never realizing that you have given a cyber thief full access to your credit card.
To keep from becoming a victim of this clever scheme, we recommend you follow these safety tips:
– Do not click on an embedded link located in an e-mail that appears to come from Amazon. Instead, go to: www.amazon.com and check “your orders” to determine if the details in the e-mail you received matches your order information. According to Amazon, if they do not match, the message is a scam.
– If the “from” line in the e-mail contains an Internet Service Provider other than @amazon.com, the e-mail is not from Amazon.
– Before you click anything, hover over the link and view the whole hyperlink address. Amazon only hosts payments on these three online websites: payments.amazon.com; resolutioncenter.payments.amazon.com; and authorize.payments.amazon.com.
For additional information about this scam and what to look for, visit Amazon’s help/support page.
If you received one of these fraudulent e-mails, you can forward it to stop-spoofing@amazon.com.
You can also contact the Lee County Sheriff’s Office fraud line at 239-258-3292 or email fraudline@sheriffleefl.org.
Source: Lee County Sheriff’s Office
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