Watch out for a brand new scam

Laz123

I haven't seen this one before:

Amazon Web Services
Hello,

We've received your report concerning unwanted content hosted on Amazon Web Services. In investigating this content, we've determined that it is currently managed by a user of our network. While the IP address of the material may indicate that the network is ours, the user is actually the one controlling the content in question.

We understand your concern regarding the availability of this content. As a courtesy we have notified our customer of your request to have the content removed or access disabled, however, AWS does not believe this content is in violation of our terms.

We request that you work directly with our customer if you have any further concerns by using the contact details provided on the site in question. If there is no contact information available, please note that AWS’ privacy policy prohibits us from disclosing customer details without a binding court order.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For any other abuse related issues, please do not hesitate to contact us at ec2-abuse@amazon.com.

Best regards,
AWS Abuse
How can I contact a member of the Amazon EC2 abuse team or EC2 customer?
Reply this email with the original subject line.

Amazon Web Services

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TadleyBaggie

So what is the scam?

neilmcl

And the "scam" is?

Fightsback

As above two comments, that is a valid email for amazon in what you have posted.

[EMAIL="ec2-abuse@amazon.com"]ec2-abuse@amazon.com[/EMAIL]

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=236915

I can't see a scam here, or it's very good hidden one.

agrinnall

Are you saying that you received this email but did not make a report to Amazon about content? If so it may be worth contacting them to see why they emailed you, but like everyone else I don't see any scam here.

debitcardmayhem

only "possible" vector is

Reply this email with the original subject line.

not great ingrish and the op hasn't given us the reply-to details.so replying might ......

AndyPix

replying might do ... nothing.


You can see the reply to if you hover over the link.


This is a genuine email from a genuine amazon email account.


No scam here


OP, what makes you think this is a scam ? Is it simply that it was an unsolicited email ??
Or is there more to this story ?

forgotmyname

OP reported someone or someone reported the OP?

Or they sent it to the wrong email address by mistake. I ordered something today and even though i treble checked all the info i sent was correct they still managed to get my address wrong.

Laz123

AndyPix wrote: »

replying might do ... nothing.


You can see the reply to if you hover over the link.


This is a genuine email from a genuine amazon email account.


No scam here


OP, what makes you think this is a scam ? Is it simply that it was an unsolicited email ??
Or is there more to this story ?

Exactly. I haven't made any reports to Amazon. I naturally assumed by clicking on the bottom link would download a trojan or worse.

It must be my bad. Apologies. It's just there's so many scammers and phishers out there I was being over-cautious.

paddyrg

It's good to show caution, you were right to do so!

If you're ever in doubt in the future, you can always post over at the Tech Stuff board here asking for others opinions. Don't let this false positive put you off being cautious!

forgotmyname

Do you sell on Amazon though?