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Probable scam
danco
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So I just received an email saying
Your package from Bezos DPA has been dispatched. Amazon Shipping will organise delivery.
It has a button "Track Package" with a tracking number.
When I click on the button it takes me to a site that claims the tracking number does not appear to belong to my account and asking me to confirm the account.
That makes it almost certain that it is a scam.
The thing is that a very few minutes before I got that email I had made a purchase from a legitimate firm and got a confirmation email saying shipment DPA07369 is on its way.
Which makes me wonder if the fact that both emails have a reference DPA (this is not the actual reference, I have changed it) is just a coincidence, or if it implies that either my email o the retailer has been hacked.
Should I tell the retailer? I guess I should at least wait and see what the tracking number is when the package actually arrives.
Your package from Bezos DPA has been dispatched. Amazon Shipping will organise delivery.
It has a button "Track Package" with a tracking number.
When I click on the button it takes me to a site that claims the tracking number does not appear to belong to my account and asking me to confirm the account.
That makes it almost certain that it is a scam.
The thing is that a very few minutes before I got that email I had made a purchase from a legitimate firm and got a confirmation email saying shipment DPA07369 is on its way.
Which makes me wonder if the fact that both emails have a reference DPA (this is not the actual reference, I have changed it) is just a coincidence, or if it implies that either my email o the retailer has been hacked.
Should I tell the retailer? I guess I should at least wait and see what the tracking number is when the package actually arrives.
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Bezos. Jeff Bezos. Founder of Amazon.danco said:So I just received an email saying
Your package from Bezos DPA has been dispatched. Amazon Shipping will organise delivery.
It has a button "Track Package" with a tracking number.
When I click on the button it takes me to a site that claims the tracking number does not appear to belong to my account and asking me to confirm the account.
That makes it almost certain that it is a scam.
The thing is that a very few minutes before I got that email I had made a purchase from a legitimate firm and got a confirmation email saying shipment DPA07369 is on its way.
Which makes me wonder if the fact that both emails have a reference DPA (this is not the actual reference, I have changed it) is just a coincidence, or if it implies that either my email o the retailer has been hacked.
Should I tell the retailer? I guess I should at least wait and see what the tracking number is when the package actually arrives.
Not sounding very legitimate.1 -
No, not sounding legit at all.
My concern is mostly how did whoever sent it get (almost immediately) the reference of a genuine purchase.0 -
So you have just ordered something from Amazon that has that tracking no?
There are loads of these emails sent out by these groups on a daily basis covering many companies. Consign the email to spam.
Double check the headers in the email & it will be clear it is not from Amazon.Life in the slow lane0 -
Don't click on links to stuff like this - Amazon do have a shipping firm but I would always wait until the order is shipped by the firm and you get tracking from them
Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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No. Your advice makes sense but I already knew that.
What concerns me, if it is not legit, is how the scammers got hold of the genuine tracking reference (which was for a purchase NOT from Amazon).
Ah well, once the product arrives I can see if Amazon were involved in the delivery at all.0 -
The retailer could be using Amazon Logistics to deliver it, why don't you ask them? It just seems really odd that the 'Bezos' name has been used in conjunction with Amazon shipping.0
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Yes, the Bezos name was what worried me originally. Together with the fact that I was given a tracking number, and when I entered it I was told the number did not belong to me and asked to confirm my details.
Anyway, it turned out to be genuine. I got the item I ordered from the retailer, and the tracking number on the package was what I had been given in the email.1
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