Fraudsters take advantage of the fact that many people order goods via Amazon. Therefore, be careful: not every order confirmation is genuine!

It's best to always look closely when you receive a confirmation email from (supposedly) Amazon. The police warn : The fraudulent senders of the email point out in the messages that you have the option of canceling the order using a confirmation document attached.

At this point, recipients should opt out and delete the email. Attackers could use such attachments to bring malware onto the computer at any time.

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Incorrect Amazon order confirmations

The emails aren't particularly well done, but the news that your own Amazon account was allegedly used to make a purchase from someone else's device might still unsettle some people. These emails were written by online criminals - not by the Amazon company!

Attachments and links in suspicious emails are always taboo. The cases currently known to the police involve PDFs in which links labeled “Report a Problem” lead to fake Amazon login pages. The criminals then use this to access the user's Amazon login details as well as payment details and addresses.

Anyone who has fallen for the phishing trick and revealed data should immediately go to the real Amazon website, log in and change their access data, the police advise. You should also contact Amazon support.

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The most important tips to protect yourself from malware in emails:

  • Do not immediately open file attachments to emails (especially Office documents), even from known senders.
  • Do not automatically click on links in emails.
  • If in doubt, call the sender of the email (do not write to the email address provided) and inquire about the credibility of the content.
  • Inform the bank and file a report

It is essential to immediately inform the bank to which the payment data that you entered on the phishing site belongs to. It is also advisable to file a report with the local police. If you are unsure whether an email really comes from Amazon or not, you should visit the so-called message center in your customer account. All orders are displayed there. Messages stored there actually come from Amazon.

Annotation:

This is an article from the website polizei-beratung.de . Police-beratung.de also started the project “ Civil Heroes: With Civil Courage Against Hate on the Internet ,” in which Mimikama is a project supporter.

Article image: Shutterstock / By Hadrian


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