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Any email from your bank or a business like that should be ignored.
You can go to your account online to see if there is a message there.
Call if unsure.
General rule of thumb: Any communication supposedly from a a major company like Amazon or AT&T will not contain misspellings and bad grammar. If it does, it's fake.
I have heard that the errors are actually deliberate. The sort of person who won't notice them is the same sort of person who will innocently hand over their social security or debit card number. Could be an old person with poor eyesight and limited knowledge of technology, or a less educated person. That's who the scammers are targeting.
They also will not say anything like “dear customer”. A legit letter from a business will have your name.
I get fake emails from Apple saying “here is your receipt for such and such“ Hoping I’ll click on the link that says “ click here if you feel you’ve received this in error“, and also fake emails from (fake) FedEx “We were unable to deliver your package”. Again hoping I will click on the link in the email.
This is the reason I have never tried to teach my elderly mother how to do basic things on the computer. I know she would love to be able to shop online, but I would never be able to teach her this sort of thing without scaring her to death. And then she’d say I’m not touching this thing!
This is the reason I have never tried to teach my elderly mother how to do basic things on the computer. I know she would love to be able to shop online, but I would never be able to teach her this sort of thing without scaring her to death. And then she’d say I’m not touching this thing!
That's one of the main reasons for me. It would be nice to have her look up stuff for herself. But this kind of stuff would be more of a headache for me. I'd need to explain not to open that, click this, do that,
all the time. It's easier for me to do it for her.
I have always assumed that the errors are because the spammers are from outside the U.S. and are not native English speakers. But saibot's theory is interesting, too. I've gotten two or three of those fake Amazon notifications just in the past week. The best thing to do is to forward them to stop-spoofing@amazon.com. They prefer that you open a new e-mail, copy the suspected spoof message and send it as an attachment rather than just forwarding, but I don't know how to do that.
I get at least one voicemail a week from thugs with Indian accents, yelling into the phone in broken English, telling me that they are with the IRS and I had better call them back immediately or they are going to stop my Social Security benefits. As soon as I hear them, I hit "delete".
Back to the subject. My general rule is to ignore all messages from web service companies, even if it seems legitimate. If their threats to block my accounts come true, I will deal with it at that point. The odds are it's just a scam anyway.
Lately I have been getting a lot of online notifications from both eBay and Google to verify my accounts. I just keep ignoring them. I don't know what that's all about. But I'm not even sure I can verify those accounts if I wanted to. Neither eBay or Google have my primary email address or true phone number, and I don't intend to give them that information.
Amazon will never send you a docx file or send you email from a sketchy domain like that one.
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That's one of the main reasons for me. It would be nice to have her look up stuff for herself. But this kind of stuff would be more of a headache for me. I'd need to explain not to open that, click this, do that,
As soon as I hear them, I hit "delete".
