phishing emails to Amazon Sellers

jamie75

I listed an item on Amazon last week and received an email asking a question about the product, I didn't see a 'reply' button in the Amazon email, but the email address of the asker was listed twice in the email, so I responded by clicking it and emailing directly, this gave the asker my email address.

Here's the email I found in my spam folder today:

Sold, Dispatch Now; 1 Digital Camcorder (36 x Optical Zoom With 2.7\" Widescreen Colour LCD) [Electronics]
From: payments_message@amazon.co.uk
payments_message@amazon.co.uk
To (my email) Date:Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:14
Dear (my email),

Congratulations! Your Amazon Marketplace item has been officially purchased..
Payments has been COMPLETED... We have deposited your earnings from the sale of
this item into our PAYMENTS ACCOUNT. Funds in your Amazon Payments account are
deposited directly into your bank account every 14 days. There is no need for
you to do anything apart from post the item to the buyer.

Here are the details of your completed Amazon Marketplace sale:

Order number: 202-7891058-3841123

Total Item Count: 1

ASIN: B00***IMDW

Quantity: 1

You have agreed to ship the item not later than 1 to 2 business days and make
sure you send us the Shipment Reference/Tracking Number as soon as you ship the
item to buyer. This item will not be removing from Amazon.co.uk web-pages and
the FUNDS will not be TRANSFER into your Amazon account not until you post the
item. Here is your buyer\'s shipping address (use your own address as the return
addresses, and enclose the packing slip in this e-mail for your buyer\'s
reference):

Shipping Label

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PACKING SLIP:

Amazon Marketplace Item: Digital Camcorder (36 x Optical Zoom
With 2.7\" Widescreen Colour LCD) [Electronics]

Quantity: 1

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Shipping address:

Ship to: Olumide David .I.

Address Line 1: 110, Ibaka quarters,

Address Line 2:

City: Akungba-Akoko

State/Province/Region: Ondo

Zip/Postal Code: 23434

Country: Nigeria

Buyer\'s Name: Harrison Astold

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Purchased by: Harrison Astold

Card holder\'s Name: Harrison Astold

Address Line 1: 393 High Road,

Address Line 2:

Town / City: Tottenham,

State: London.

Post Code: N17 9JA.

Country: United Kingdom.

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Amazon Buyer\'s e-mail: [EMAIL="hastold@yahoo.com"]hastold@yahoo.com[/EMAIL]

Amazon Seller\'s email:

Time of sale: 23-08-2009

Shipping speed: Airmail

Buyer\'s Price: £119.99 (GBP)

Marketplace fees: £10.00 (GBP)

Additional shipping credit: £200.00 (GBP)

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Your earnings (in your Payments account): £309.99 (GBP)

Note: Amazon.co.uk is crediting you £200.00 (GBP) in addition to your net sales
price to help cover shipping costs.. This amount is adequate to cover standard
shipment of most items. You are required to ship this item even that the
shipping credit does not fully cover your shipping costs.

ABOUT YOUR PAYMENT:

Deposits to your bank account take at least 14 business days, excluding bank
holidays... Any transfers that are returned to Amazon.co.uk from your bank will
be investigated... If 14 or more business days have passed and you have not
received your deposit, please contact your bank if you still have difficulties.
If you didn\'t provide your bank account information when you registered, please
do so at your earliest convenience. Amazon Payments CANNOT DISBURSE funds to you
until you provide routing information for your checking account.

Your Shipping and Refunds: Sellers agree to ship within 1 to 2 business days of
purchase. Failure to ship immediately is grounds for negative seller feedback,
revocation of shipping credits, and even suspension of a sellers account... If
you cannot provide the item you sold, you can issue a full refund by completing
the following Steps:

1. Go to your Seller Account.

2. Click on the Amazon Payments account and billing history link.

3. Click on the Search your Payments transactions link. When prompted, sign in
using your e-mail and password.

4. After signing in, input your search parameters and click the Search button.

5. From the resulting list of transactions, click the transaction or order ID
that you want to refund.

6. Scroll to the body of the Transaction Details page and click Refund link. You
can include a short memo explaining the reason for the refund in the Memo to
Buyer box...

7. After you enter your information, click the *Refund* button... We will e-mail
this information to the buyer as soon as the refund is processed successfully.

***************************************************************

Security and Spamming

Amazon.co.uk sends you an e-mail whenever you list or sell an item.

Many ISPs and private e-mail accounts use aggressive spam filters that
inadvertently block some of our e-mails before they reach your inbox.

Be sure to add the domain \"Amazon.co.uk\" to your safe list in your e-mail
program/spam filter.

****************************************************************

--Got more questions? You\'ll find answers about selling on Amazon.co.uk at:
www.amazon.co.uk/make-money

--Can’t find the answer to your question on our website? Got a suggestion for
us? Contact Amazon.co.uk customer service at (amazon_salesdeposit@email.com).

NB: Kindly go and make the shipment via ROYAL MAIL to the shipping address
provided for you above, failure to ship out the item within 1-2 Business Days,
your Amazon account will be DE-ACTIVATED and SUSPENDED. Mail the shipment
tracking number to Amazon.co.uk customer service at (amazon_salesdeposit@email.com)
in order for the FUNDS to be Transfer into your Amazon Account.

The item will not be removing from Amazon.co.uk and the FUNDS will not be
TRANSFER to your Amazon Account not until you make the shipment for the item.

We wish you the best of luck selling at Amazon.co.uk.

Best regards,

Amazon.co.uk--Amazon Services Europe SARL Sell Your

Stuff http: www.amazon.co.uk/marketplace

If you read the email is pretty easy to spot as there are some pretty poor spelling errors, so my advice is to always go to the Amazon site using your own link and not one provided in an email, and look at your sales there before posting anything. Maybe I was targeted as its my first listing on Amazon.

There is no need for
you to do anything apart from post the item to the buyer.

:rotfl:

LemonGrove

Mail the shipment
tracking number to Amazon.co.uk customer service at (amazon_salesdeposit@email.com)

:eek::eek: :rotfl:

Ebany

With all the books I have sold on Amazon it doesn't tell you the address to dispatch to in the email, it says you have to log in to your account to get the address (admittedly I don't know if this is the case for electricals, but it seems likely), so the fact the address is there in the email for you is a big flashing warning sign to me (ignoring everything else in the email as well).

Just so you know in case you get a scammer who can spell (you would think they would learn, they would catch so many more people if they could actually write legible emails...)

soolin

It is very difficult to scam anyone on Amazon since as has been pointed out by Ebany you can only get the address once you log into Amazon. No need to check headers or anything.

jamie75

As this is my first listing I wasnt too sure how Amazon operates, so thanks for the advice

Mail the shipment
tracking number to Amazon.co.uk customer service at (amazon_salesdeposit@email.com)

haha, I didnt spot that!

soolin

If you're new to Amazon then don't forget as well that you need to confirm shipment now when you send things otherwise you don't get paid. I think that is just another way though to remind us that we need to log in and confirm the details before we ship.

There is an Amazon sellers thread on the ebay and other auctions board that you may find itneresting.

maninthestreet

it was thios bit in the email that made me laugh:

"Amazon.co.uk is crediting you £200.00 (GBP) in addition to your net sales
price to help cover shipping costs.. "

latinaid

soolin wrote: »

If you're new to Amazon then don't forget as well that you need to confirm shipment now when you send things otherwise you don't get paid. I think that is just another way though to remind us that we need to log in and confirm the details before we ship.
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Actually, you don't have to use the Charge When Ship function at the moment (unless they have already made this compulsory for new Amazon sellers?) - I am still getting the payment from Amazon direct to my Amazon account as soon as the sale is made, rather than when I ship.