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| amazon gift card scams |
Recently, a wave of suspicious emails has been flooding the inboxes of many Amazon users. These emails claim to be from Amazon (store-news@amazon.com) and purport to contain information about gift card purchases. However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that something isn't quite right.
Many unsuspecting users have reported receiving not one, but three consecutive gift card emails from Amazon within a minute of each other. These emails all start with the line, "Thank you for purchasing <name of company> gift cards from Amazon.com." Naturally, this raises concerns and confusion among recipients.
One of the most perplexing aspects of these emails is that users cannot find any evidence of these alleged gift card purchases on their Amazon accounts. No transaction history, no charges, nothing. This disconnect between the email content and the absence of any financial activity on their Amazon accounts is a red flag that something is awry.
If you've received such emails, the first and most crucial step is to heed the advice given by Amazon itself: do not open these emails, and delete them immediately. Amazon's official response to concerned users is that these are indeed fraudulent emails. They have acknowledged the issue and are actively investigating it to protect their users.
Conclusion
The recent emails from store-news@amazon.com, about gift card purchase, has a warning in there about scammers, but nowhere in the email does the saying that, this was some kind of test or them trying to inform users about scams.
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Actually, these emails do come from Amazon and can be seen in your Amazon message center.
ReplyDeleteconfirmed.
DeleteCorrect, I just got 3 as well and see them in my Amazon Message Center despite not seeing any such transactions. My guess is that either a faulty algorithm was used to generate the recipient list or there has been a major hack of Amazon.com. I'm personally emailing stop-spoofing@amazon.com to complain - if Amazon intentionally did this, it is really bad business and if it's a mistake or they've been hacked, they need to know.
ReplyDeleteConfirmed they show up in the Amazon Messages Center, but still doesn't explain what they mean.
ReplyDeleteThey are worded in a way that makes it sounds like Amazon thinks I ordered all three gift cards. But no such orders show up. So -- is it just a badly worded email by Amazon? I presume so, as so many people have recieved it.