Heads up, Amazon Scam

I just got an email from an amazon @gmail address, stating that an apple computer was shipping to someone in Texas. I stupidly called the number on the email, and was asked to go to my gmail account and "type "www..."

At this point, my spidey senses kicked in and I realized my folly. I have since reported it to Amazon's fraud department, and expect it to resolve in a timely manner.

Be careful out there.

There is also a message scam that tells you your fedx/ ups package has a problem. They are trying to get you to click on the link

I'm pretty sure Amazon would not have a Gmail account. 

SVreX (Forum Supporter) said:

I'm pretty sure Amazon would not have a Gmail account. 

Correct, and that got past me. I'm not the most computer savvy, and trying to help other fools like me.

I wasn't criticizing you.. we all get caught sometimes. 
 

I was just pointing out something that people can look for.

Apparently my amazon account is frozen for reasons about twice a month.  Even though it never is.

alfadriver (Forum Supporter) said:

Apparently my amazon account is frozen for reasons about twice a month.  Even though it never is.

Heck, my Amazon account is frozen more often than I use it according to all the emails I get saying so...

A scam I ran across recently while searching for an iPhone/iPad to HDMI adapter, right away I had a bunch of product hits with hundreds to thousands of very positive reviews (4+ stars). I scrolled down to actually read some of them and there were a bunch of  vague ones such as "works great" "does what it says it supposed to" etc. but then there were the more specific ones which were obviously for a product completely unrelated (like a broom or some other cleaning product). It seemed like they were taking other listings for unrelated products after they had a bunch of positive reviews and then changing the product to one that was actually a POS.

Long story short, spend the money for the apple one as the aftermarkets ones have a very poor reputation if you need that particular adapter.

As a guy in healthcare IT, I want to remind everyone that there are lots of scams right now asking you to sign up for a covid vaccine. Just saying, be careful the links you click. 

Remember, you can make any link look like something else too. example.com

but if you hover over it your browser should show you the real url you are about to click. 

Amazon is pretty much a scam. Jeff Besos thinks we are all idiots as he banks billions from a million Chinese counterfeiters.

alfadriver (Forum Supporter) said:

Apparently my amazon account is frozen for reasons about twice a month.  Even though it never is.

#metoo

Some of the Amazon ones are really well done. It infuriates me that gmail and yahoo are extremely effective at filtering those and hotmail can have the email reported as a phishing scam and still let a dozen more through.

This should serve as reminder to never click on anything in these emails and double super never provide any infomration after clicking on something in an email.  I'd advise most people not to even click on the email and open it up.  If you get something that looks like it might be from a vendor you do business with and the subject line makes you think there is a problem:

1. Close the email completely.
2. Open a seperate web browser or app and navigate to the vendors site as you normally would.

It may seem onerous, but there are just too many of these scam emails.  If you aren't overly careful they will get you eventually.  Just assume alll the emails are fishing attacks...

... but did you know that your vehicle's warranty is about to expire?

Have I lost my mind?  I could swear I read an (almost?) identical post from Gearheadotaku (Jeff) the other day.

WilD said:

This should serve as reminder to never click on anything in these emails and double super never provide any infomration after clicking on something in an email.  I'd advise most people not to even click on the email and open it up.  If you get something that looks like it might be from a vendor you do business with and the subject line makes you think there is a problem:

1. Close the email completely.
2. Open a seperate web browser or app and navigate to the vendors site as you normally would.

It may seem onerous, but there are just too many of these scam emails.  If you aren't overly careful they will get you eventually.  Just assume alll the emails are fishing attacks...

^^^This is exactly what I shoulda done, and eventually did, but not until I came really close to becoming a RUBE.

Thanks for the scam heads up. Something very similar just happened to me with PayPal. Account restricted. Very non PayPal address. Logged in and everything is fine. Absolutely no notifications. None. Binned and blocked that address.