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I'm just giving everyone a head's up... there is a new Identity Scam (phishing) game going on in which you get an email that' is supposedly from AMAZON's security department... DO NOT RESPOND OR FILL OUT THE FORMS THAT THIS EMAIL LINKS YOU TO. If you have already, get to your bank and Amazon... change your passwords, etc. and cover your butt!

PASS THE WORD!

There also ones from paypal going around. I got a fake one posing as payapl last week. I reported it, just watch the ULR.

Ebay too... you'll click on a product and it will say you have to log in a again but the url is completly different, it was fishy because it was an adult product of the arts and crafts secton..

Word of advice:

Whenever you recieve an e-mail or link from someone which requires a login, either go to the website manually instead of clicking the link or copy/paste this into your web-browser while on the page.

javascript:alert("actual URL Address " + location.protocol + "//" + location.hostname + "/");

If it says that the actualy name of the website is amazon.com, then you know that they are not masking the address bar, if it says something other than amazon or ebay or whatever the link said, then block the user/emailer and get off of the site.

Thanks for the heads up!

~David

Websites like Amazon and eBay will Never ask for your password via an email.

I am 14 and recieved one from 'ebay' telling me to log in as I owed money. I of course did not and they never even displayed a username. I emailed them back telling them basically to get lost but then they threatened me saying that they'd sue or something. I then emailed the real ebay and they told me that everyhting was fine and its just another scam and that they set up a page for all the problems.

I used to get these type of emails everyday when I ran my small ebay business. Thes best thing to do is just keep reporting these emails to paypal and ebay or whoever else and just hit delete.

These scams are commonplace now.. just dont be thick enough to click on the links..

1. Ebay and Paypal will NEVER ask you to log in via links in the email, they will ask you to log in via an independant window.
2. They will NEVER ask you to update financial information.
3. If you look at the links in an email, you will see that before the website URL, there are letter before this which re-direct you to a scam version of the webiste.

JUST DONT CLICK

On the BBC website today they reported that BILLIONS had been lost to the various "Nigeria" scams.
For the bank scams it was an AVERAGE of £31,000 per person.

There are a lot of gullible people out there.....

saxmad wrote:On the BBC website today they reported that BILLIONS had been lost to the various "Nigeria" scams.
For the bank scams it was an AVERAGE of £31,000 per person.

There are a lot of gullible people out there.....

£31,000? Man, I am in the wrong line of work