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Phishing emails from ‘Amazon’ are well out of order

(THE GUARDIAN) - Customers of the online bookseller Amazon are being warned to be wary of a fake “phishing” email asking them to check their accounts.

These emails, addressed “Dear Customer”, say: “Your order has been successfully canceled [sic]. For your reference, here’s a summary of your order.” They then give an order number and a link to “order information”, which appears to take users to an external website that does not belong to Amazon. The emails have a link to the genuine Amazon.com website at the bottom, making them appear authentic.

“From time to time, customers may receive emails appearing to come from Amazon, which are actually false emails, or ‘phishing emails’,” said a spokeswoman for Amazon. “These can look similar to real Amazon emails but often direct the recipient to a false website, where they might be asked to provide account information such as their email address and password combination.”

She advises customers to send any such emails to stop-spoofing@amazon.com and only check their order status by logging directly into their account from amazon.co.uk.

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