Any one getting fake E-mail from "Amazon.com" lately?
I got one this morning indicating my order was successfully canceled!
And the reference # they give (link), points to a Health&drug mall in Canada. Also the hyper tag link at the bottom "Amazon.com" points to the same place.
Thing is, I have not ordered anything from Amazon for a long time, like maybe 5 years or so.
I am not that gullible ;)
Jamie
Yup, several per day. I've spam-filtered them.
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Well, if "my order was SUCCESSFULLY canceled", why would I need to click on ANY link?
Doesn't matter. Spammers "play the odds". I.e., Amazon, PayPal, eBay, , etc. are LIKELY to be entities that folks have had transactions with. If you received an email from the SpammersRUs.com domain, I suspect you wouldn't bother to open it! :>
I get one or two spams a week on *one* email account (none on any of the others) that I use in public forums/mailing lists/etc. The provider filters (flags) these for me -- though the fact that they are spam is immediately obvious: "Dear Friend" (wow, we're friends but you don't know my *name*?) "You order is ready" (gee, I never use this email address online!) "Hi!" (c'mon, do you really think I am that desperate for contact that I'll open *anything* just to see what's inside??)
Doesn't matter. Out of a few hundred million such emails,
*someone* will respond!
That would mean that you also fall into that category. Your posting history tells the story of how you have encountered these issues long before I. Does that mean you were a fake before me?
Yes, I have a very good memory for things of this nature. You can't cover that one up nor can you cover up the blunders you have bend pulling off or think you have been pulling off here lately!
It's just that the majority here are simply being polite and ignoring you.
Have a good day and may your lack of knowledge about people lead you to that dark corner.
Jamie
True. I was able to track it down and it just seems strange that, that web page (Business) would actually be engaging in this kind of activity.
I suppose there could be a disgruntle customer, employee or X-employee.
Jamie
Yes, fake cancellations, fake (airline) reservations, fake order confirmations.
Sometimes they coincide plausibly with actual online activity, just by chance.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
Agreed. Or, the return address ("Gee, snipped-for-privacy@myisp.com sure looks like I sent this to *myself*?" ). Or the presence of an attachment, etc.
Knowing the sorts of people who are likely to send mail to you goes a long way towards screening out the cruft.
Well, you WERE gullible and stupid enough to follow the links.. AND you knew damn well you had NO order.. In my SPAM box i see things like that a lot..Amazon, PayPal, various banks (i use NONE of those), umpteen variants of the Nigerian scam, variants of "your e-mail has won", variants of Microsoft lottery, etc, etc and etc. I never look at them..their title tells it all.
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And usually the distribution list. Anything addressed to a undisclosed distribution obviously is not directed to just you.
Dan
Amazon's security team is in Huntington, WV (my home town)... I think made up entirely of Marshall University students.
The one occasion where I had a questionable E-mail, years ago, they were lightning fast at resolving it.
(Of course it helps to be able to drop right back into that accent :-) ...Jim Thompson
No, I wasn't gullible, I didn't use vulnerable software to track that down. What exactly did you think I did? launch the links from the browser? Do you really take me for a fool?
It's just that I haven't gotten any thing suspicious like that in quit some time. I used to get lots of it but still, even then, I wasn't gullible like many are and start clicking away..
Jamie
"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
Yes, coincidences do happen. When I received my first Nigerian scam mail ages ago, it claimed that I had been recommended as a trustworthy partner by a high-ranking official from my country. It just so happened that one of my closest friends was ambassador to an African country at that time. I'd heard of junk mail and online scams long before we had internet access in my region, but the circumstances made me pause for a moment before I deleted the mail.
Do you really take me for a fool?
Yes, most of the people here do. You haven't noticed?
Not really, I've to busy watching a good many here making an ass of themselves, and you're one of them.
So misinformed you are.
Lots of sheep here.
Jamie
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Yep, i have been getting them for about a week now. Since the order numbers are fubar i consign them to spam pretty quickly.
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Same with me. I made a filter in thunderbird that takes any subject "successfully canceled" and it goes into the bit bucket...
I seem to have been doing this a lot lately.
Few people realize that the word "gullible" does not appear in any major dictionary or spell checker.
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