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[kivah]

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@MoJoV wrote:

Makes you sick doesn't it?  Can't answer your phone can't answer your door can't open emails. Why can't this stuff be stopped?  Morons calling about arresting me,my Social Security number is cancelled because of fraud and other such BS.Creeps at my door selling me "energy credits".  Fed up with it.

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They sure make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

[spent2much]

Yes, I'm getting emails from Amazon about my Prime account.  Fake emails, but they "look" real, like they're coming from Amazon.  But the Prime account I use isn't in my name; it's in my DIL's name.  I just delete them.

[deedledeedeedle]

This is a Phishing scam.

I've been getting email from a sender described as "Amazon Services" stating my Prime membership is expiring and wanting me to select a hyper link to "correct" it. No way, no how. Don't fall for this, Boys and Girls!

dee

[JustJazzmom]

New Jersey came out with a warning about the phone & e mail scam.

[Bridgegal]

I haven't had that but yesterday when I got on my laptop I had a box pop up and a voice came on to have me call apple about a virus in my computer.   It went on and on and gave a number.  I just deleted it and moved on.

[JumpTheRope]

I got an “Apple” email claiming my Cloud Key would lock in

24-hours UNLESS...ETC...ETC....

I made sure to text my F+F to ignore so called Apple email.

Scary stuff though...

[coco14]

The Amazon scam started several months ago and was widely discussed on news shows - then it seemed to go away, only to recently resume - what is interesting to me is that I place orders for books three or four times a month and yet have never received the scam email.

Every morning I get e-mails into my Spam from Fed Ex, Walmart, CVS, etc, all supposedly telling me I have won a gift card blah blah blah - luckily, my email shows me much of the content without my having to open it - so they get deleted -

Some months ago, someone posted here about hovering your cursor over the email sender's name - then you will see the completely nonsensical email address of the sender - a real clue that the email is a scam.

[millieshops]

@Kachina624scam in the sense that if I click on their link, they have an extra path into me.

I think lots of things called scams when the vast majority of receivers don't answer and don't lose $$$.  I do believe these contacts are nefarious and do not come from Amazon at all.

Is there a different term I can use?

[JustJazzmom]

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@coco14 wrote:

Some months ago, someone posted here about hovering your cursor over the email sender's name - then you will see the completely nonsensical email address of the sender - a real clue that the email is a scam.

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That is exactly what I do, hover my cursor over the sender's e mail. 

Yesterday I won something from CVS! -- e mail subject said CVS! instead of CVS.

[Kachina624]

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@millieshops wrote:

@Kachina624scam in the sense that if I click on their link, they have an extra path into me.

I think lots of things called scams when the vast majority of receivers don't answer and don't lose $$$.  I do believe these contacts are nefarious and do not come from Amazon at all.

Is there a different term I can use?

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@millieshops    Spam.  Junk mail.