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Anyone else getting these? They're so annoying. "Your ordered has been successfully cancelled. If this was in error, please blah, blah, blah. Give us your personal info and we'll rape your finances."

I wish people weren't so gullible so that these things wouldn't be so popular.



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I get them too.
 
Posts: 8944 | Location: The Red part of Minnesota | Registered: October 06, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Same here.
 
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Yep.
 
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And a similar one with a PayPal theme.


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Yes, I received one after a legitimate credit card hack email, so I was concerned, however, it said "cancelled" so I never opened it.
 
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Got them too. I just delete. I know I didn't order or cancel anything.


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Posts: 3652 | Location: The armpit of Ohio | Registered: August 18, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Never got the Amazon cancellation email. If I get one purporting to be CC company or banking institution, I never click the link. I go to the website, sign in, and see if the important message is truly there.

Hover over the "from", why would a financial institution or web merchant be contacting me using billg@gmail.com?


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Posts: 7353 | Location: Between the Moon and New York City. | Registered: November 27, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I'm currently getting about 30 junk mails a day. At least 3 are the Cancelled Amazon ones, 5 from "Lyft", a few about making my schlong longer, some from hot women who live near me whose husbands are out of town...I block every address and it only gets worse. I posted about it the other day.

Still, 30 a day at the worst, for a 22 year old, daily used, email account? I'm not complaining too much.




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I've been getting one or two of these daily for about the last 3 weeks. Thank god they go into my junk folder.
 
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I get them in my email account that's NOT associated with Amazon.
 
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I get several a day. This all started when Yahoo site was hacked. I get over 120 spam emails a day.


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Oh yeah, and evidently I have toe fungus now?




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Got one as well, in addition to a few British tax returns good for a few thousand GBP's, and a few notices about how I have accounts that will be closed asking where they should send the remaining balance.


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I get those all the time.

Today I got a TEXT message from "Wells Fargo" about my account and click link to whatever.

Don't have Wells Fargo. Number blocked. Probably spoofed anyway.



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Posts: 7993 | Location: Cleveland, OH | Registered: August 09, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Most of the ones I get are of the "your account is cancelled/limited please update your information" type. Funny that they send the Paypal ones to an email address that has never had a Paypal account. Same for iCloud ones, to an address that is not the one used for iCloud.
 
 
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I coudn't tell what is contained in such emails, because I've never opened one of them and I don't see why any web-savvy person would. I see the subject lines of these emails in my Spam folder, right before I hit 'Delete All'.
 
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You don't need to open them to know they're phishing emails, para. (I'm just assuming what I typed is what is written in them.)



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I started receiving such emails. I know it is a scam. That is why I never open it and delete all of them. But, I started getting those emails AFTER I placed couple of orders from Amazon about 4 weeks ago. I placed 2 separate orders for RV parts. Then, I started getting those scam emails. I wonder if someone had gotten into Amazon's database.


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I get them too but strangely, not in the email that I use for amazon or any internet sales.



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