poppy
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Someone is sending out phoney emails supposedly from Amazon, saying unusual activity in account, click here and update card info. Comes complete with logo and looks very official.
But when checking account (not by clicking), there is no unusual activity.
What I can't figure out is how they get your email address, the one you are using with Amazon. Does this mean they have been hacked too? And if so, why would the scammers need to have anyone click on a link?
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It probably installs malware or something. Same thing happens with PayPal and yahoo accounts.
Have no idea how they get the emails, except it's probably just a guess that you have an account with Amazon. They are just phishing!
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Keebler
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- Best to never click onto any email within an email.
If a company where you are "registered" has som email to you with a link, go directly to their website and access your account through their site.
You can call Amazon - anytime, I think. Talk to them about it. Go to "customer service" or whatever, you click on something that tells them to call you and they do right away. A real person is usually very helpful.
There may be logical explanation - or not.
I will say that their new "logo" or "format" is a bit different and I've had to check several times in the past week or two as to if I landed on some clone site. They seem to be really pushing their "prime" so that's the slant of the new format. But it's not all the time. Irritating. -
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Keebler
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- Also go and clear your history / cookies. Do a clean scan of your computer. I do that every time I land on a new or dubious site. I tend to click the side of pages when I try to scroll and seem to always be opening up ads so I just clear and scan often.
And at the end of each day after you sign out of your email accounts (if you don't sign out, it's easier for the email addresses to be lifted and maybe passwords, too) and all sites where you sign in.
Best to always sign out of any site you sign into at least at the end of the day -- and then delete history / cookies and do your clean scan.
If your friends tell you they got a bonus email from you, then be sure to go in and change your password.
Then shut down - and then when power is off either unplug or turn off the power strip. That way you know no one can access your computer once the power is disconnected.
And it save on the power bill, and the grid load.
- with a big THANKS to TerryK here for teaching me much of this when my email got hacked and all my contacts were sent outrageous "emails" "from" me. I could not undo that but these steps did stop it. -
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Keebler
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- Malwarebytes is very good - and they have a feature for "real time" scan to catch any nefarious action as it might occur. -
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MADDOG
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Microsoft has a big security update today.
Be shure to do an update everyone!!!!!!
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