Please note: a fake email is sent to customers of the online site in order to steal credit information • To strengthen the level of urgency, the message states that your order has been frozen • This is how you will defend yourself
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The shopping month begins and with it the online scams: The security company ESET reports a new phishing email that impersonates Amazon and tries to obtain personal and credit card information.
And the simple method: Victims are notified that they are being asked to update payment details to release their currently frozen orders.
ESET notes that the malicious email appears to be of a relatively high standard compared to recent phishing attempts.
"To resolve the issue, the payment details must be confirmed, including name, address and telephone number," the message states, and the user is asked to click the "Update Now" button to access the details update.
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In order to strengthen the sense of urgency, they add that "if no details are updated within three days, all orders will be canceled and the account will not be accessible."
In the first step, victims are asked to log in to their account by entering the email address.
Fraud Detection Tip - When you try to click on additional options such as terms of use, privacy agreements below or a request for help, you will find that they are inactive and get nowhere.
After entering the email address, enter an account password.
Please note that now that you have entered your details, hackers have access to your Amazon account.
Finally, the details of the invoice delivery address and the credit card details that will be automatically sent to the attackers who are responsible for the fraud must be updated.
How do you know it's a scam?
ESET says that if you have received an email asking you to update any details, do not click on the link.
The surest way to do this is to proactively log in to the service provider's site, in this case Amazon, and see if there is a request to update information there.
You will probably find that there is none.