🎣 How to Identify a Phishing Attempt?
Have you ever received an email and weren't sure if it was from Amazon or a phishing attempt?
If this has happened to you before, or if it ever does, here are some helpful tips for identifying a fake email:
1. Remember that there is certain information that Amazon will never ask for. This includes Your National Insurance Number, your bank account information, your Amazon or Seller Central password.
2. Check the email for grammatical or typographical errors.
3. Check the return address.
4. Check the website address.
**Remember, if you have any doubts, you can forward the email to stop-spoofing@amazon.com **
Here is the link to the help page with all the information you may need.
If this has happened to you and you want to share your experience on the Forum, we're listening.
Please give this post a THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN to let us know if you'd like to see more content like this.👍👎
Have a great day!
Sarah.
🎣 How to Identify a Phishing Attempt?
Have you ever received an email and weren't sure if it was from Amazon or a phishing attempt?
If this has happened to you before, or if it ever does, here are some helpful tips for identifying a fake email:
1. Remember that there is certain information that Amazon will never ask for. This includes Your National Insurance Number, your bank account information, your Amazon or Seller Central password.
2. Check the email for grammatical or typographical errors.
3. Check the return address.
4. Check the website address.
**Remember, if you have any doubts, you can forward the email to stop-spoofing@amazon.com **
Here is the link to the help page with all the information you may need.
If this has happened to you and you want to share your experience on the Forum, we're listening.
Please give this post a THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN to let us know if you'd like to see more content like this.👍👎
Have a great day!
Sarah.
3 replies
Seller_MT8rt0A2OpbCx
There should be no need for any clickable links in emails from Amazon. It just gives scammers the opportunity to clone emails with very similar, but phishing or virus URLs. The emails are getting more convincing, especially with the likes of ChatGPT to make them error free.
All that is needed from Amazon is simply:
"You have a message from Amazon. Log in to your seller central (no link here!!) to view".
Then, if there are links, it's a scam. If no-one falls for them, there would no benefit in creating them, so they would stop.
My rule, never click on links in emails. There is always another way.
Seller_Nprc5XWvdLYk9
With respect the number of times we have forwarded what later turns out to be a genuine email from amazon to stop-spoofing and the stop-spoofing autoreply tells us
"Thank you for contacting Amazon to bring this to our attention. Your message has been forwarded to our security department for investigation.
We strongly advise that you do not send any information to the SMS, e-mail or site which you reported to us, especially your credit card number or any personal information. If you have already shared your credit card details, you can block your card by contacting your bank. If you are concerned that your account details are at risk after having clicked on links within a Phishing or Spoofed e-mail"
but it doesnt say "oh this message was from Amazon it might be important etc"
Seller_d8YGbIjNqwFxn
How about you do something like other organisations do put in a piece of information in the email which a scammer is less likely to know.
Alternatively also send all emails so they also appear in our Amazon seller Account, then we would know they are real emails.
You could do other things such as stop putting links in emails.
There is plenty you can do to help us out. It is not always easy to spot a phishing email and I suspect everyone has been nearly caught out by one at some point.
🎣 How to Identify a Phishing Attempt?
Have you ever received an email and weren't sure if it was from Amazon or a phishing attempt?
If this has happened to you before, or if it ever does, here are some helpful tips for identifying a fake email:
1. Remember that there is certain information that Amazon will never ask for. This includes Your National Insurance Number, your bank account information, your Amazon or Seller Central password.
2. Check the email for grammatical or typographical errors.
3. Check the return address.
4. Check the website address.
**Remember, if you have any doubts, you can forward the email to stop-spoofing@amazon.com **
Here is the link to the help page with all the information you may need.
If this has happened to you and you want to share your experience on the Forum, we're listening.
Please give this post a THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN to let us know if you'd like to see more content like this.👍👎
Have a great day!
Sarah.
🎣 How to Identify a Phishing Attempt?
Have you ever received an email and weren't sure if it was from Amazon or a phishing attempt?
If this has happened to you before, or if it ever does, here are some helpful tips for identifying a fake email:
1. Remember that there is certain information that Amazon will never ask for. This includes Your National Insurance Number, your bank account information, your Amazon or Seller Central password.
2. Check the email for grammatical or typographical errors.
3. Check the return address.
4. Check the website address.
**Remember, if you have any doubts, you can forward the email to stop-spoofing@amazon.com **
Here is the link to the help page with all the information you may need.
If this has happened to you and you want to share your experience on the Forum, we're listening.
Please give this post a THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN to let us know if you'd like to see more content like this.👍👎
Have a great day!
Sarah.
🎣 How to Identify a Phishing Attempt?
Have you ever received an email and weren't sure if it was from Amazon or a phishing attempt?
If this has happened to you before, or if it ever does, here are some helpful tips for identifying a fake email:
1. Remember that there is certain information that Amazon will never ask for. This includes Your National Insurance Number, your bank account information, your Amazon or Seller Central password.
2. Check the email for grammatical or typographical errors.
3. Check the return address.
4. Check the website address.
**Remember, if you have any doubts, you can forward the email to stop-spoofing@amazon.com **
Here is the link to the help page with all the information you may need.
If this has happened to you and you want to share your experience on the Forum, we're listening.
Please give this post a THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN to let us know if you'd like to see more content like this.👍👎
Have a great day!
Sarah.
3 replies
3 replies
Seller_MT8rt0A2OpbCx
There should be no need for any clickable links in emails from Amazon. It just gives scammers the opportunity to clone emails with very similar, but phishing or virus URLs. The emails are getting more convincing, especially with the likes of ChatGPT to make them error free.
All that is needed from Amazon is simply:
"You have a message from Amazon. Log in to your seller central (no link here!!) to view".
Then, if there are links, it's a scam. If no-one falls for them, there would no benefit in creating them, so they would stop.
My rule, never click on links in emails. There is always another way.
Seller_Nprc5XWvdLYk9
With respect the number of times we have forwarded what later turns out to be a genuine email from amazon to stop-spoofing and the stop-spoofing autoreply tells us
"Thank you for contacting Amazon to bring this to our attention. Your message has been forwarded to our security department for investigation.
We strongly advise that you do not send any information to the SMS, e-mail or site which you reported to us, especially your credit card number or any personal information. If you have already shared your credit card details, you can block your card by contacting your bank. If you are concerned that your account details are at risk after having clicked on links within a Phishing or Spoofed e-mail"
but it doesnt say "oh this message was from Amazon it might be important etc"
Seller_d8YGbIjNqwFxn
How about you do something like other organisations do put in a piece of information in the email which a scammer is less likely to know.
Alternatively also send all emails so they also appear in our Amazon seller Account, then we would know they are real emails.
You could do other things such as stop putting links in emails.
There is plenty you can do to help us out. It is not always easy to spot a phishing email and I suspect everyone has been nearly caught out by one at some point.
Seller_MT8rt0A2OpbCx
There should be no need for any clickable links in emails from Amazon. It just gives scammers the opportunity to clone emails with very similar, but phishing or virus URLs. The emails are getting more convincing, especially with the likes of ChatGPT to make them error free.
All that is needed from Amazon is simply:
"You have a message from Amazon. Log in to your seller central (no link here!!) to view".
Then, if there are links, it's a scam. If no-one falls for them, there would no benefit in creating them, so they would stop.
My rule, never click on links in emails. There is always another way.
Seller_MT8rt0A2OpbCx
There should be no need for any clickable links in emails from Amazon. It just gives scammers the opportunity to clone emails with very similar, but phishing or virus URLs. The emails are getting more convincing, especially with the likes of ChatGPT to make them error free.
All that is needed from Amazon is simply:
"You have a message from Amazon. Log in to your seller central (no link here!!) to view".
Then, if there are links, it's a scam. If no-one falls for them, there would no benefit in creating them, so they would stop.
My rule, never click on links in emails. There is always another way.
Seller_Nprc5XWvdLYk9
With respect the number of times we have forwarded what later turns out to be a genuine email from amazon to stop-spoofing and the stop-spoofing autoreply tells us
"Thank you for contacting Amazon to bring this to our attention. Your message has been forwarded to our security department for investigation.
We strongly advise that you do not send any information to the SMS, e-mail or site which you reported to us, especially your credit card number or any personal information. If you have already shared your credit card details, you can block your card by contacting your bank. If you are concerned that your account details are at risk after having clicked on links within a Phishing or Spoofed e-mail"
but it doesnt say "oh this message was from Amazon it might be important etc"
Seller_Nprc5XWvdLYk9
With respect the number of times we have forwarded what later turns out to be a genuine email from amazon to stop-spoofing and the stop-spoofing autoreply tells us
"Thank you for contacting Amazon to bring this to our attention. Your message has been forwarded to our security department for investigation.
We strongly advise that you do not send any information to the SMS, e-mail or site which you reported to us, especially your credit card number or any personal information. If you have already shared your credit card details, you can block your card by contacting your bank. If you are concerned that your account details are at risk after having clicked on links within a Phishing or Spoofed e-mail"
but it doesnt say "oh this message was from Amazon it might be important etc"
Seller_d8YGbIjNqwFxn
How about you do something like other organisations do put in a piece of information in the email which a scammer is less likely to know.
Alternatively also send all emails so they also appear in our Amazon seller Account, then we would know they are real emails.
You could do other things such as stop putting links in emails.
There is plenty you can do to help us out. It is not always easy to spot a phishing email and I suspect everyone has been nearly caught out by one at some point.
Seller_d8YGbIjNqwFxn
How about you do something like other organisations do put in a piece of information in the email which a scammer is less likely to know.
Alternatively also send all emails so they also appear in our Amazon seller Account, then we would know they are real emails.
You could do other things such as stop putting links in emails.
There is plenty you can do to help us out. It is not always easy to spot a phishing email and I suspect everyone has been nearly caught out by one at some point.
