A new Amazon phishing scam email is circulating, that tricks users into handing over their personal as well as financial information including credit card information to online crooks.
Usually, Hackread covers phishing scams identified and alerted by cyber security companies but in the latest one, the targeted scam was aimed at my supposed Amazon account. It is not surprising since the targeted email account (a dummy one based on Hotmail) was part of several data breaches and scammers tend to target such emails thinking that once a fool, always a fool.
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The phishing scam works like this: The victim receives an email supposedly from Amazon informing them about suspicious activity on their account. The confusing subject of the email is in English and French language stating that “Fw: [Monthly Statement Added] Confirmation notice: information activity on Wednesday 13 September 2019 #JLQUUUNZ/ Confirmation changer le mot de passe de votre compte JLQUUUNZ- Friday, September 13, 2019.”
The French text according to Google Translate means “This is to confirm that your password has been changed.”
Apparently, the crooks are trying to convince victims that someone has changed the password of their Amazon account. The email content itself comes with the following text:
Hello Dear Customer, We have faced some problems with your account, So please update your account details. If you do not update your account within 24 hours (from opening this email) will be ..
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