[DM-MUG] Fwd: Amazon Costumer Service Account Problems -- Fradu

[Arne Quanbeck]

Jeff Muller wrote:

> It's obviously some scam spam. I get this kind of crap all the time on 
> my Yahoo account, which is the address I use for anything that might 
> sell my info (and Yahoo does a pretty good job of sorting out the spam 
> into the "Bulk" folder, as well). Usually these phony set-ups are used 
> to gather passwords and/or credit card numbers, like this one does. 
> FWIW, I use my mchsi addy for Amazon and have never gotten any email 
> that I hadn't OK'd or signed up for.
> 
> As for reporting it to the Att'y General, well, good luck. The 
> "custumer" service address is a phony and will not lead to the sender. 
> Amazon is certainly not at fault so I suspect you'll receive a polite 
> "there's nothing we can do" reply from someone on the Att'y General's 
> staff. My advice is to sit back, have a chuckle and enjoy the ludicrous 
> nature of these attempts...and then delete them!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
If you include the full email headers it is sometimes possible to track 
down who sent the message. The "From" header is easily forged.
Arne