A Scam Email with the Subject
"Fraud Alert"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:50:23 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"Amazon" <service@amazon.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.
Scam Tag Cloud
suspendverificationactivityamazonbidendedwinsafeaccountnotificationserviceprocessurgentinvestigationverifysentmail will http://www.amazon.com/exe...
NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED
Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate agencies.
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report
Occasionally, incorrectly categorized emails get into the Scamdex Scam Email Database and need to be removed. If this
email has Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or is, in your opinion, from a bona-fide entity, let us know.
Scamdex will, as soon as is practicable, take-down any emails that in our opinion should not
be in our database. Note that ALL emails in the Scamdex Scam Email Database were received as Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka UCE or
SPAM, via unpublished 'Honeypot' email addresses.
You have received this email because we have
strong reason to believe that your Amazon account had been recently
compromised. In order to prevent any fraudulent activity from occurring we
are required to open an investigation into this matter. To speed up this
process, you are required to verify your Amazon account by following
the link below.
Please Note:
If your account informations are not updated within the next 72 hours,
then we will assume this account is fraudulent and will be suspended. We
apologize for this inconvenience, but the purpose of this verification is
to ensure that your Amazon account has not been fraudulently used and
to combat fraud.
We appreciate your support and understanding,
as we work together to keep Amazon a safe place to
trade.
Thank you for your attention on this serious
matter. We apologize for any delay in resolving this
situation.
