Health & Fitness
Amazon Scam alert
Scam artists are on the rise, beware fake messages about Amazon orders you never placed

Like many people today we wake up, drink our morning coffee and
fire up the ol’ pc and check our email only to get that influx of junk mail and
various unwanted spam. But there seems to be a message from Amazon.com about my recent order. So being an Amazon customer we open the message to see what it is and get a conformation order page showing that we just ordered a nice 55” TV and are sending it to someone in Los Altos Nebraska, wait a second here you think even perhaps sending a bit of coffee spraying thru the air “ I’ve been hacked” you click on the link in the email to login to amazon and cancel this
order ASAP.
And that ladies and gents is how they stole your user name and
password, you just handed it to them.
If you mouse over carefully the links on the email you’ll see
that it wants to send you to a grobarek.ro
NOT amazon.com. For folks on tablets this is a bit trickier, but you can
see the urls it wants to send you too before you click if you hover over the
link with most tablets
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Today thieves and scam artists are more clever than ever and
always thinking up new ways to try and rip us off. They put up websites that
are exact copies of places like amazon.com, paypal.com as well as they target
many bank and credit card company websites.
If or when you get mails like this and are in doubt NEVER click
the links in the email, open your web browser and go the website such as
amazon.com on your own and look at your order history.
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Be safe out there, be smart, think before you click.
Brian