Amazon spam: Beware of phishing e-mail with real data

If you order a lot from Amazon or other online shops, you should be more careful. The editorial team was given a phishing mail which, in contrast to previous spam from Amazon, tries much more trickily to bring the user around his access data. We’ll show the e-mail with the lingering traps, and how to make sure it’s a phishing attack or spam.


Amazon Phishing: Do not purge!


The picture above shows the phishing mail (subject: "important message"), which a reader received. The picture you see here in a larger format. We have marked the critical points. The alleged Amazon customer service largely writes free of errors from the e-mail address "support@amazon.de". The domain is right, just like the title with the correct name. Previously, spam emails with real name users were unsafe.


Amazon Phishing: Unmasked


In the current phishing mail, an alleged order with a specific order number, a price as well as invoice and shipping addresses, to which a purchase order is supposedly ordered, is named. The Amazon account should have been restricted because the transaction is suspicious. A link is requested to confirm the order.


In fact, the transaction is suspicious: the reader has not made an order over such an amount. Inadvertent users could now believe a stranger goes online shopping with his own account and only in this one case was Amazon attentive to suspicious actions. If the user is in a hurry, it can quickly happen that the given link is clicked - with the motivation to quickly check the current orders - and the responsible persons behind the spam mail reach their goal: deceive and access user access when Enter them on the webpage that opens.


Even with the subject, users could be stupid. Amazon e-mails usually have specific data on actual orders or previous support requests that the customer has incited.


Lesetipp: Spam filter in the test


The text is largely error-free. The criminals should only practice the commas again. The attack is predominantly disrupted by the customer clicking on a link. As the picture above shows, this does not lead to Amazon. By now, you can be sure that you are dealing with fraudsters. In addition to an order that you have not given up, the footer with the Amazon data is also incorrect. In addition, the navigation points in the header are not linked.


Compared to real emails from Amazon, there are other points that can be noticed by attentive users. This is not always possible in hurry and panic. It is only the advice: Take the time not to simply process e-mails with "half-eye", especially not with providers with which you are logged in with credit card, bank account or similar.