Be careful when it says: “Amazon: You have won a smartphone (purchase code: 4951253)”

Anyone who receives this promise of winnings should pay close attention, because unknown people are pretending to be Amazon and claiming to have qualified for a prize because of a purchase made via Amazon.

Amazon has absolutely nothing to do with the process shown below; unknown third parties have improperly used the name, logo and corporate design of the online mail order company to pose as Amazon.

This promise of winnings, which should be treated with caution, appears in the form of an email:

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We can at least give the all-clear at this point, because saying that you made an online purchase some time ago is not based on knowledge, but is part of the tactic you use to pretend to be Amazon. The information is pure and is based on the fact that many people order items via Amazon.

This is how it continues

First you are directed to a website that claims to be a buyer survey. This site is designed entirely in the style of Amazon and is visually almost indistinguishable from a survey that you would expect from Amazon. What is striking, however, is the survey's web address because it clearly does not belong to Amazon.

Note: It doesn't matter what you specify in this customer request, you always end up on a page that announces the win. Here you have to choose what you want.

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Be careful, affiliates!

However, the profits listed there are not real profits, but rather affiliate programs. Affiliates are partner programs through which the linking Gartner receives commission from the linked partner if they respond to the offer.

In the harmless case, these are partner programs that give the participant a lot of advertising; in the extreme case, there is a WAP billing subscription trap hidden behind the link for visitors via smartphone (from which the organizer also collects commissions, of course). protection software detected a dangerous linkMIMIKAMA in one of these links in the supposed winning selection

No matter what else happens: the profit advertised at the beginning doesn't exist! Here the recipients of the email are unfairly deceived and lured into sometimes dubious affiliates.


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