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All that you have to do is look at the email that it was sent from, it's usually some long email that has nothing to do with the sending company.

Doesn't matter NEVER click on a link they send you search for Amazon link yourself

Hmmmm. What makes this the best EVAH?

I know it's fake when it says, "Dear Amazon Customer" and not my name.

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Originally Posted by Bill14564 (Post 2287074)

1. I don't know that amazon doesn't sell subscriptions to apple TV just as they used to sell subscriptions to the Washington Post
2. The URL in the link is to the subscription services page where I would expect to go to see the status of an apple TV subscription purchased through amazon
3. If the apple TV subscription was purchased through amazon then they might know if you have ever used the app to activate the subscription
4. Correct, if you spent money with Apple through the apple app. However, see 1-3 above
5. The email could only inject a virus if the mail tool and its settings allowed that to happen. Most tools will protect against it unless the user has defeated those settings, chooses to download an image, or clicks on a link (which, of course, is what a phishing email intends for the user to do)
6. Yes, the phone number is a nice touch for any that would be cautious about clicking a link and would talk to a live person instead.

This *might* be an exact copy of a legitimate Amazon message with the only the links and phone number changed to target the unwary. In that respect it is very good.

You’re right, it’s a very good phishing email. :boom:

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Originally Posted by Keefelane66 (Post 2287140)

Again I feel left out never get these in my inbox but go directly to Junk/Spam folder.

How so you make new spam emails go directly to your spam folder

Evah! Really? Unsolicited email= SUSPICIOUS.
This stuff has been around since the new millennium, at least.

They solicited the O.P., so it's GREAT he's so smart about cyber stuff, huh?

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Originally Posted by Marmaduke (Post 2287550)

Evah! Really? Unsolicited email= SUSPICIOUS.
This stuff has been around since the new millennium, at least.

They solicited the O.P., so it's GREAT he's so smart about cyber stuff, huh?

:bowdown:Sorry, wrong answer.

I have worked at times in IT and in a CNI company where cyber attacks were in the thousands daily. We were tested constantly and had lectures regularly, and i guess you don't realize that people and employees still fall for these constantly when working and not paying 100% attention. . This was a screen shot from a discussion which people turned into an admired corporate strategy from a phishing email.

At one hospital a family friend told us that there were so many testing emails that the employees ignored actual IT/HR emails and employees weren't doing actual needed HR system updating due to their fear of going back to phishing class!
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