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1 posted on 04/09/2010 4:19:17 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
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I got something similar the other day but didn’t bother to open it because I don’t have anything on order.

Mine was camera equipment too.


2 posted on 04/09/2010 4:21:00 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Very poor attempt at a scam.


3 posted on 04/09/2010 4:21:28 PM PDT by ParityErr (It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.)
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Delete it.


4 posted on 04/09/2010 4:22:43 PM PDT by Cindy
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Scam i think you are pulling the scam you want us to check out the Nokia N73...
When did you start working for Nokia?? :>)


6 posted on 04/09/2010 4:23:36 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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A company as big as Amazon could surely pull off something less pethetic than that.


8 posted on 04/09/2010 4:24:11 PM PDT by cake_crumb (President Reagan on ObieCare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs&feature=player_embedded#)
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I have been shopping for Amazon since the day they went online and I have never been scammed by them. You were probably scammed by someone else using the Amason logo. You may want to call Amazon for a spoofing attack.


9 posted on 04/09/2010 4:24:19 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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Attachment is a virus. Don’t open it.

Shift+Delete ASAP


11 posted on 04/09/2010 4:25:06 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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Amazon (I’m very sure) would love you for forwarding it with all information intact to their fraud department.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=15836841


12 posted on 04/09/2010 4:25:11 PM PDT by Ingtar (Congress: proof that Entropy trumps Evolution)
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Crude attempt at a phishing scam. has nothing to do with amazon. Delete and forget but DON’T click the link!


14 posted on 04/09/2010 4:26:51 PM PDT by ohiobuckeye1997
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Print the postal label to get your package.

Right up until that part, it sounded like a legitimate notice from Amazon, that could be evidence someone had hacked your Amazon account and bought something to be shipped to themselves with it. One of the main reasons online retailers and financial institutions routinely send out confirmation e-mails is so you'll be alerted if your account is being used by an unauthorized party. But when you get a message that sounds like that might the case, of course you should always go directly to the retailers site and contact them that way, not click on a link in the e-mail.

20 posted on 04/09/2010 4:30:01 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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"Print the postal label to get your package.

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't we here in America say "shipping label" ... postal label sounds so British .....

26 posted on 04/09/2010 4:34:02 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If someone calls me a racist I'll just tell them you're just saying that because I'm white ....)
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Most companies have an ‘abuse@[company_name].com’ email address that you can forward such things to. It can also be helpful to copy the text of the full header information (depends on what software/website you use to read your email) and forward that information as well.


27 posted on 04/09/2010 4:34:11 PM PDT by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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does Amazon even send out such messages? i order from them all the time, but i never read the messages... i just go to my page and track my packages...


31 posted on 04/09/2010 4:47:57 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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I received a similar e-mail on April 1st. It looked like a legitimate message from Amazon, saying that a recent order had been shipped, and instructing me to open the attachment for tracking information. It even gave an order number.

But I wasn’t expecting anything from Amazon, and I had never received an e-mail from them with an attachment. The order number wasn’t even close to any of my real ones. Plus it was April Fools Day. So I didn’t open the attachment. I forwarded the message to Amazon site security.


35 posted on 04/09/2010 4:55:28 PM PDT by 04-Bravo
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Some months back, I got a similar one form “eBay”. It said that I had bought a $300+ watch and please submit payment to some bogus user ID. Had all the right eBay logos, etc. I just forwarded it to their security and they informed me it was a phishing expedition. The phisher was depending upon me being outraged and challenging the sale by “following this link”. Yeah, right.


36 posted on 04/09/2010 7:21:00 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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I got on too a few weeks ago. I didn’t open it, I just deleted it.


37 posted on 04/09/2010 7:50:30 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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Amazon was not the scammer. You title leads one to believe Amazon is at fault.


41 posted on 04/09/2010 9:02:37 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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