Although this is coming from an Irish newspaper, just be careful out there everyone 
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Those phishing emails supposedly from Amazon have been around for some time.
Amazon has advice on what to look for to see if an email is a con:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/he...483801920&sr=1-2
and if you do ever get one you can report it to them via:
I tend to find that any communication from Amazon regarding orders tends to have either an order number, order description or both somewhere in the email.
People need to be a little more careful with emails of this nature as I'm sure a lot of it is down to not paying enough attention.
Oooh.....I think I might actually have got one of those a wee while ago. I just laughed and ignored it. It was so obviously nonsence: Words missing, spelling errors, addressed to 'Dear customer' etc.
Maybe I'll dig it out and send it to the fraud section!
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Oooh.....I think I might actually have got one of those a wee while ago. I just laughed and ignored it. It was so obviously nonsence: Words missing, spelling errors, addressed to 'Dear customer' etc.
Maybe I'll dig it out and send it to the fraud section!
I had one at work this week from Nigeria. As you say the spelling was hilarious, they even tried to double bluff by making out this is not a scam and that the money I needed to send to release the ÂĢ273 billion from a frozen bank account had already been paid by my 'bennerfactor' and all I now needed to do was send my bank details. 