Phishing Scam E-Mails: Amazon (3)

During the past year, I received many e-mail solicitations that appear to be phishing e-mails. Phishing e-mails are e-mails from scam artists who use "official" looking webpages designed to trick you into believing they are from a website such as EBay, Paypal, America Online, banks, financial institutions. They generally imply that your account will be suspended or deactivated unless you click the link to the webpage that is linked from the e-mail. Sometimes they say that someone is trying to use your account or this is done for "security" purposes. Once you are at the site, they will ask for personal information. You may be asked to provide or verify personal information such as bank account information, credit card information, social security information and password information. If you get such an e-mail, you should delete it and do not provide any of the requested information. However, if you are still not convinced that you have a fraudulent e-mail, please contact the company directly and explain the e-mail you received.

***Urgent Fraud Prevention Group Notice***

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.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/flex-sign-in/
(To complete the verification process you must fill in all the required fields)

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.

Regards,

Amazon.com
Investigations Team

Please do not reply to this e-mail as this is only a notification. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.
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From:	"amazon.com©" <service@amazon.com>
Subject:	*Urgent Fraud Prevention Group Notice*
Date:	Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:29:56 -0500