Amazon’s popularity has not escaped scammers who tie many scams to Amazon including the phishing email copied below that can lead to identity theft and the hacking of your Amazon account.  I have warned you many times over the years about scammers who send various types of phishing emails which purport to be from Amazon attempting to lure you into either clicking on links which can download malware, such as ransomware or providing personal information that can be used to make you a victim of identity theft.

I recently received an Amazon phishing email that is copied below.  The email below is typical of many of those presently circulating. The latest Amazon phishing scam starts with an email that appears to come from Amazon informing you that an unauthorized person had accessed your account and your account has consequently been deactivated until you provide information to verify the account. Obviously anyone receiving such an email would certainly be concerned and might be lured into clicking on the link provided in the email (which I have disarmed) to remedy the situation.

This particular phishing email is very sophisticated, having a legitimate appearing Amazon logo, however, it is very simple to counterfeit a legitimate appearing logo.  Often a telltale sign that the email is a part of a scam is that the email address of the sender has absolutely nothing to do with Amazon and that was the situation in this case. The email address from which it was sent appears to be a part of a botnet of hacked email addresses used to send phishing emails.  All legitimate Amazon emails end in amazon.com.  In addition, if you hovered your mouse over the link provided you would see that where it would send you had no relation to Amazon. Additionally, the email is not addressed to me by name, but rather just my email address which is another indication that this is a scam.

Here is a copy of the email presently being circulated

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