Millions of Americans use Amazon.com every day to make purchases, and identity thieves know this. That’s why they’ve targeted their latest phishing scam to utilize the popular shopping site to gain the personal information of unsuspecting shoppers.
Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as user names, passwords and credit card numbers by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. In other words, a thief sends out an e-mail asking the recipient to respond with information for one reason or another. Thieves will also use pop-up windows that often contain links that take the computer user to a site that appears legitimate and asks for personal information.
The Better Business Bureau has issued a warning about the Amazon scam. Identity thieves are sending e-mails that appear to be from Amazon.com, thanking the customer for a recent purchase. The e-mail includes a bogus order number and price, and asks the customer to click a link. The link either downloads a virus to the user’s computer, or leads to a Web site that asks the user to input his or her credit card information and Amazon.com log in information.
If your information were input without your permission as part of this scam, your credit – and your good name – could be ruined.
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