Just received an scam email, allegedly from Amazon, to "update my account information". Obviously phishing-the only reason I mention it is that the Amazon logo looked pretty realistic.

Nothing new. These scammers have been doing this forever, using all kinds of official logos to make them look legit. Look at the actual email address and know right away they are scams. Oh yeah, and the "Click Here" to verify / update, only the most ignorant folks still fall for it.

As Q wrote: Nothing new. I get these and similar messages about my PayPal account regularly.

The ones I particularly enjoy are the ones that tell me my email account has been suspended and I have to log in somewhere to reactivate it. I run my own mail server

Oh, and any email that starts with "Greetings!" immediately goes to SPAM. That word is like a fingerprint of these foreign scammers. Lol.

I've been getting several different scam emails supposedly from Amazon.
The one mentioned to update my information and others that claim to be invoices for orders.
I don't know what they actually say because I won't open them - I'm just going off the subject line.

I'm also getting daily emails from different senders every time offering me the same exhilarating job as Package Manager in their growing logistics company.

I've had an uptick in fishing emails lately. A number of them are regarding purchases I've supposedly made with my credit card and to call a phone number to dispute it. Yeah right. They go right to trash.

Jim

I’ve been getting DAILY e-mails from “Xfinity” informing me that I need to “upgrade to the latest version”. Fortunately I know it’s a crock of shit and set up anything received from the sending/offending address to go into my Spam folder. Fucktards.....

When I did situation rooms for companies and the government, I always put their logo on it, even the Homeland Security Logo.

With computers it's very easy to copy anybody's logo and use it in any way you want.

Legally...not so much.

I got a call last week telling me my wireless phone account had been suspended. They were calling me on my wireless phone.

Nothing new here.
Just never respond to any issue that you did not originate from the source.
IE: You call, email or login to your known source then investigate.
NEVER click on any links or phone calls or give sensitive information over the phone when you didn't call them first.
Use common sense and trust no one.

An amazon account email sent from 113dk1kal1ldjal@mailaccouts.com is not valid. Why dont people just check the senders email?

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Originally posted by gpbst3:
An amazon account email sent from 113dk1kal1ldjal@mailaccouts.com is not valid. Why dont people just check the senders email?

I suspect they don't know about that.

The scammers got tired of my not replying to their phone calls about my amazon account, so they started sending emails. Strike two!
Rod

Not surprising. I had a call from an alleged Amazon rep advising me that my bill owed is $39.99 this month. The number on my Recent call log displayed a number coming from Ft. Collins CO. I could barely hear the guy and hung up and contacted Amazon and inquired about my bill as it should only be $12.99 mo for Amazon Prime video. That rep told me that they do not call people and advise them of a bill owed. I gave him the phone number listed on my caller ID from Ft. Collins and he said be aware of scammers and sent me via email their policy about this. He thanked me for checking with Amazon directly.

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Originally posted by gpbst3:
An amazon account email sent from 113dk1kal1ldjal@mailaccouts.com is not valid. Why dont people just check the senders email?

Addresses can be faked or sometimes seem real.
It doesn't matter as the prudent thing is to not directly respond (click) on anything that is suspect or asking for sensitive information.
Same thing for phone calls.

I've taken to calling them on the number listed in the e-mail. I'll usually ask for the head or chief scam-wog, then wait to get a reaction. Sometimes they get really offended and slam the phone down, other times they play along.