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"Cancelled Amazon Order" phishing scams in my email:
June 25, 2017, 01:45 PM
Orguss"Cancelled Amazon Order" phishing scams in my email:
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.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" June 25, 2017, 01:47 PM
MNSIGI get them too.
June 25, 2017, 01:49 PM
houndawgSame here.
June 25, 2017, 02:34 PM
arfmelYep.
June 25, 2017, 02:43 PM
YooperSigsAnd a similar one with a PayPal theme.
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June 25, 2017, 03:07 PM
GaryBFYes, I received one after a legitimate credit card hack email, so I was concerned, however, it said "cancelled" so I never opened it.
June 25, 2017, 03:20 PM
joatmonvGot them too. I just delete. I know I didn't order or cancel anything.
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
June 25, 2017, 03:50 PM
Floyd D. BarberNever 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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June 25, 2017, 04:33 PM
chongosuerteI'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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June 25, 2017, 07:01 PM
WildSigI've been getting one or two of these daily for about the last 3 weeks. Thank god they go into my junk folder.
June 25, 2017, 07:17 PM
IndyRobI get them in my email account that's NOT associated with Amazon.
June 25, 2017, 08:12 PM
41I get several a day. This all started when Yahoo site was hacked. I get over 120 spam emails a day.
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June 25, 2017, 08:21 PM
chongosuerteOh yeah, and evidently I have toe fungus now?
Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here.
Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard.
-JALLEN
"All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones
June 25, 2017, 08:42 PM
ChachGot 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.
June 26, 2017, 11:40 PM
ChowserI 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.
Not minority enough! June 27, 2017, 09:27 AM
henryazMost 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.
June 27, 2017, 09:32 AM
parabellumI 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'.
June 27, 2017, 11:01 AM
OrgussYou 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.)
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" June 27, 2017, 12:55 PM
adorI 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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June 27, 2017, 02:14 PM
Rey HRHI get them too but strangely, not in the email that I use for amazon or any internet sales.
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