A Very Good Amazon.com Spoof Email.
 

Dear Customer, - Due to recent account takeovers and unauthorized listings, Amazon is requesting a new account verification procedure. From time to time, randomly selected accounts (seller and/or buyer)are placed under an advanced updating process based on merchant accounts/bank relationsand on-file credit cards. Amazon may also request in an email message scanned/faxed copies of one or more photo ID's. Your account confirmation may go wrong if your credit card/bank account has expired, or if you have changed/replaced your credit card without letting us know about the change. Your account is not suspended, but if in 36 hours after you receive this message your account is not confirmed we reserve the right to terminate your Amazon subscription. If you received this notice and you are not an authorized Amazon account holder, please be aware that it is in violation of Amazon policy to represent oneself as an Amazon user. Such action may also be in violation of local, national, and/or international law. Amazon is committed to assist law enforcement with any inquires related to attempts to misappropriate personal information with the intent to commit fraud or theft. Information will be provided at the request of law enforcement agencies to ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. To confirm your identity with us click the link bellow: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/sign-in.html We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you and we would like to thank you for your cooperation as we review this matter. Respectfully, Amazon.com, Inc.

Copyright 2006 Amazon.com, Inc. All rights reserved. Amazon sent this e-mail to you because your Notification Preferences indicate that you want to receive information about Special Events & Promotions. Amazon will request personal data (password, credit card/bank numbers) only on our home site, wich is securely incrypted with SLL.

I just received the above e-mail from: [email protected].

It looks very official, as does the link it sends you too.

Keep on the lookout.

That's why it is a good idea to always hover the mouse pointer over a link before clicking, to make sure what the link says is the same address it is going to send you to. The example from above really will send you to hxxp://p7.hostingprod.com/@mortworld.com/tmp/index.php instead of an Amazon page.

hope you reported it to amazon. i'd think with their clout they'll get on it nice and quick

Yeah, I got something just like this from PayPal (or Netteller) a couple weeks back. I just used the "hover method" as cartman said.

Boy, good think I re-submitted all my information to Amazon! Would be teH sUxxoRz if Amazon terminated my account!

A ton of in-experienced computer users fall for these things though.

Dola! I just got an e-mail saying someone in Nigeria wants my bank account so they can deposit millions of dollars! Its funny when distant relatives show up ain't it?

Looks like its the good life for me now on suckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My god, one of the spoofers finally found an english-speaker to write their e-mail for them. We are all doomed.

that was my thought too. we'll have to wait for a Quicksand judgement, but i didn't notice any poor grammar or misspelling in it.

They did miss a space after the close bracket.

I just submitted 5 credit card #s belonging to card holder Fuck U Asshole.

:D

ROFL

Something looks wrong here:

To confirm your identity with us click the link bellow:

whoops. well i didn't read it THAT closely, as usually it's more than just one spelling error that gives those emails away.

"Your account confirmation may go wrong if your credit card/bank account has expired"

Close, but I don't think a legit company would use the term "go wrong" to describe something like that. Not very official. Also, who's bank account expires?

I thought the wording was poor.

Yeah, apart from a few spelling errors, the grammar/syntax was horrible.

In fact, the following passage doesn't even make sense:

"If you received this notice and you are not an authorized Amazon account holder, please be aware that it is in violation of Amazon policy to represent oneself as an Amazon user." Ok, you sent an email to someone who is not an Amazon user and they're breaking the law because you did that (that is essentially what they're saying)????????

The rule of thumb: if the email is unsolicited and is a form letter - never respond. Pretty simple.

Yeah, normally it would have looked like this:

2 conform ur identiitity wit us clik teh lynk 3elow:

Thanks for the info, Honolulu.

I'm sending you a PM. I work for Amazon.com, and I'd like you to send that email to a specific place.