Amazon Prime Scam

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JudyM

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Heads up! In my email in box was a notification that I had not paid for my monthly Amazon Prime subscription. I checked my account and it was paid for. Clicked on it and the email wanted me to enter my access to my credit union account. NOPE! Blocked and delete.
This is where it came from:

no-reply@c2378.the-luxton-hotel.com
on behalf of
P𝅴⁤r⁤i m⁤e Membership<sales@caesarstone.com.au>
 
Same scam happens with all kinds of different "FROM" companies. I've seen some very sneaky ones, too where the sender lists an email address that looks legit, only it's in the "name" field and not the email field.

See this screenshot I took here - notice who it's from. I didn't see the actual sending email until I hovered over it.
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Chadk said:
"clicked on it" ..... please don't do that. Clicking a link like that could do a number of things - none of them good.
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No credit card or anything else entered. I blocked it anyhoo. If it shows up again with different name in the from email, well, I betcha I will block that again.
 
My MIL clicked on a suspicious link. Got infected with a virus. No Bueno!
 
When I click on the box of the junk email, then block, it shows who was sending it. Notice the ",au"? Could be from Australia or Austria.. Clicking on the email itself lets the sender know that my email is active. May receive more Amazon Prime emails that are scams. Thanks for the heads up, I will not be clicking on the link anymore. (y) My Antivirus/Malware is always running in the background.
 
JudyM said:
When I click on the box of the junk email, then block, it shows who was sending it. Notice the ",au"? Could be from Australia or Austria.. Clicking on the email itself lets the sender know that my email is active. May receive more Amazon Prime emails that are scams. Thanks for the heads up, I will not be clicking on the link anymore. (y) My Antivirus/Malware is always running in the background.
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Antivirus/Malware software other than what's built into your Operating System is a whole other scam. No reason to run that. It's not going to help you.
 
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Evan B said:
Antivirus/Malware software other than what's built into your Operating System is a whole other scam. No reason to run that. It's not going to help you.
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Learn something new everyday. TYVM @Evan B !
 
My wife got a call from a "sergeant at the Lane County Sherrifs' Office" recently. I called the Lane County Sherrifs' Office and before I got three words out they said: "it is a scam."
 
we use LastPass for generating and protecting our important passwords, which we change routinely, and regularly delete browsing/download history, cookies, cached images.
Since retiring only use Chromebooks, which besides booting up immediately, feature multi-layered security and a sandbox (isolation zone) for apps and web pages = less susceptible to hacking.
Chromebooks running Linux environments with access to all the developer tools a common go to for the security minded.
 
We have a pretty intensive "immersive phishing program" at work, where they regularly send sketchy emails to us. I'm fully paranoid about any even slightly sketchy email/text/call now. I wonder if you can sign up for a program like this individually.
 
Never open an email that you haven't first verified the sender as being legit.
After porn, spam and scams are the second most common uses of the internet.
 
Never had a prime account, so I know it’s a scam from the get go.

Didn’t know about the clicking on the email…links yes…hovering over yes…but not the clicking on the email itself.

Will be more aware now. Thanks
 
Mossback said:
Never open an email that you haven't first verified the sender as being legit.
After porn, spam and scams are the second most common uses of the internet.
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Damn good advice. I always check the address of the sender before opening any email especially if I don't recognize the name. If I give my email address to anyone I always ask how I'm going to recognize anything they send. And I still check it out when a msg arrives. As for Amazon, I'm on prime for thursday night games which makes it like pay per view and I still have to sit through commercials which is BS. So I posted " like" on the post that said F... Amazon.
 
bobduck said:
Damn good advice. I always check the address of the sender before opening any email especially if I don't recognize the name. If I give my email address to anyone I always ask how I'm going to recognize anything they send. And I still check it out when a msg arrives. As for Amazon, I'm on prime for thursday night games which makes it like pay per view and I still have to sit through commercials which is BS. So I posted " like" on the post that said F... Amazon.
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If you only use Prime for TNF, you can get rid of it and stream from twitch.tv for free. Just a thought... That is what I do.
 
RCF said:
If you only use Prime for TNF, you can get rid of it and stream from twitch.tv for free. Just a thought... That is what I do.
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Had to google twitch tv as never heard of it. Is it commercial free?
 
No pro sports are commercial free if it's a legit platform. The leagues contract with the advertisers.
 
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