Amazon's new SellersAnswer (Scam)
Archive: Online bookselling
A couple of weeks ago we got an email from someone on eBay apologizing for failing to pay for something. But no one owed us for anything. Holding the cursor over the reply link showed that while the visible text of the link was http://ebay.com/ … the actual hyperlink was to another site.
A reasonably clever bit of social engineering I thought.
Yesterday this arrived:
Hello,
I was just emailing because I haven’t yet received this order, and was wondering if you could please tell me the status of it? Please fix this problem and email me soon! What is happened?
Thank’s!
There was a link to Amazon’s new SellersAnswer. For half a second I was fooled. Then I realized that nowhere in the email was a Amazon transaction number. Again, looking at the link and not just the visible text that it wasn’t really a link to Amazon.
At the bottom of this phishing expedition was:
If you receive a suspicious e-mail with a link to update your account information, do not click on the link—instead report the e-mail to Amazon.com for investigation.
Almost all emails are supicious nowadays.
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