Caution! There is currently another major wave of phishing using a well-known email.

This is an email with the subject “Order cancelled”. It is also alleged here that someone misused your Amazon account. The item Old Pulteney 23 Years Bourbon Cask Malt Whiskey worth €265 plus shipping would have been purchased. At the same time, you will be informed that this would be unlawful access and that your account has therefore been blocked as a precautionary measure.

Due to the many new references to this email, we are repeating our old warning!

This email is bait. A bogus argument is used to lure you to a fake website. The fraudsters pull out all the stops: the Amazon logo is used, Amazon's invoice structure has been replicated and even the sender's name has been manipulated and the term "customer service" is used as the sender.

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The rest is a formality. This email, identical to the “order canceled” phishing emails, claims that there were problems:

Hello,
due to several controversies during the order placement, your account has been temporarily restricted by the security system.
There may have been unauthorized access to your account. In order to re-activate account access, identity verification as the primary account holder is essential.
Instructions on verification can be found at the end of this notification

This type of fraudulent email is not new; it has been around for weeks. Apparently this scam must work well, otherwise this phishing email would not be sent unchanged over such a long period of time.

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Two elements are interesting at this point: The email states a “Süleyman Kayacan” as the recipient of the goods. Of course that is also fictitious. Here it is suggested that “foreigners cheat” and by mentioning this name, a racism trigger is used to make the content of the argument credible. We have already found a number of emails of this type ( compare ). What is new at this point is the whiskey as a supposedly purchased product; as a rule, this type of phishing email usually involves smartphones.

Phishing!

This email is of course a phishing scam. Both this variant and the many similarly structured emails refer to websites that ask you to enter personal data. In these cases, our antivirus software directly blocked the web address, indicating that it was a phishing web address:

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The following applies here: The alleged verification process is a trap! Fraudsters only want to access valid data from Amazon users.

What you can do!

If you suspect that an email or website is fake for phishing purposes, please feel free to forward it to us via spam@zddk.eu. We're looking at it. By the way, Amazon would also be happy if you forward the email to stop-spoofing@amazon.com. First of all, it is important to pay attention to email addresses or URLs. These are a first, important indication. However, sender email addresses can also be forged!

If you are unsure whether it is a phishing attack, you can simply log in to the actual homepage of the alleged sender, for example at www.amazon.de. If data is really needed, you will be asked to enter it there.

If you have already fallen for a phishing attack, it is important to immediately change all passwords and PINs used and to make the credit card or bank details unusable, for example by blocking them. You should also carry out a detailed security check on the affected devices (laptop, smartphone, etc.) and file a report with the police.

Delete the email and definitely do not click on any links in it. If you still want to check your Amazon account to be on the safe side, enter “amazon.de” manually in the address bar of the web browser and log in to the real website with your access data. You will then see that no authentication was necessary!


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