Amazon E-MAIL scam or what?

Ganga

Hope this is posted in the correct place,i have received an e-mail from Amazon saying my account might have been compromised,they want me to contact Amazon toVerify my account.
Now i do use Amazon now and again,probably 4/5 times a year but am worried this is some sort of scam so have not opened the e-mail,any thoughts from others?

McKneff

Def. A scam. There will be a link asking you to click and verify your account number and probably picking up on your password and personal details. Just delete it, then delete it from your deleted items box and forget about edit. Always delete any like this

50Twuncle

McKneff wrote: »

Def. A scam. There will be a link asking you to click and verify your account number and probably picking up on your password and personal details. Just delete it, then delete it from your deleted items box and forget about edit. Always delete any like this

I agree - try logging on to Amazon - directly (amazon.co.uk) - NEVER use a link provided
If you feel like it - you may want to forward the email on to stop-spoofing@amazon.com - as an attachment - for investigation

Ganga

Thanks for the replies,i will delete it now.

AndyPix

Just for further knowledge, it is always safe to open an email and inspect the contents.

It is acting on those contents, ie clicking links where problems arise.

Agreed with above, this is a phishing email and ones like this are very common.
Just delete and ignore, no need to start deleting from trash etc

Nilrem

AndyPix wrote: »

Just for further knowledge, it is always safe to open an email and inspect the contents.

It is acting on those contents, ie clicking links where problems arise.

Agreed with above, this is a phishing email and ones like this are very common.
Just delete and ignore, no need to start deleting from trash etc

IIRC it should be safe now, but back in the day (puts cloth cap on and pipe in mouth), there were occasionally issues because the email client sometimes automatically opened/ran certain bits of content which led to exploits (IIRC buffer overun exploits involving purported image files).

These days it's not an issue, but I wouldn't tell an email to "display images" if it looks like it might be spam as that can involve loading them from a server which can be used to tell which email address are active leading to more spam.

Marvel1

I never click on links in emails, I type in the web address manually, log on and account is normal (surprise surprise).