just got a phony amazon email

scottyboy76
scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
edited July 2014 in The Clubhouse
Immediately trashed it, looked pretty good, but i knew i had no order being fulfilled, and there were many addressees with similar email addresses this had been sent to.

Keep an eye out for pretty good fake amazon notices
humpty dumpty was pushed
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,834
    edited July 2014
    I recently got a similar email (not from Amazon though) that thanked me for my $236.xx order that I recently placed. Huh?

    The give-away for me that it was bogus was a .zip file attached that they advised you click to view the order itself. I can only imagine
    what type of virus was going to start installing itself had I done that...
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • Msabot1
    Msabot1 Posts: 2,098
    edited July 2014
    You open anything like that in your inbox...you are dumber than a box of rocks....
  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited July 2014
    ...i posted here 2 weeks ago when i got the same email with attachment. Also going around is the phone call from India stating there is something wrong with your computer. They want to take control of it to diagnose. I just use an airhorn into phone. Targeting over 60 crowd !!! Got 3 calls in a week.
  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2014
    Well let's see. Most of the great PC revolutions were the product of guys who are either almost 60 or, in Wozniak's case, already over 60. So that old rule doesn't apply anymore. Those "refuse to be left behind boomers" are a real pain, aren't they? lol

    cnh
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited July 2014
    there was a zipfile on this too
    humpty dumpty was pushed