Saturday, 22 October 2022

Fake 'your Amazon Account has been suspended' phishing scam

Fake Amazon account url

One of our local borough residents received the above (screenshot of a) fake phishing scam purporting to be from Amazon on his mobile. He reported it but alerted us to warn others.

His Bitdefender software also alerted him

Security text alert

A quick check of the fake url on Virustotal

fake Amazon url

flagged the url as malicious

VT flags it as mailicious url

Suspicious text messages should be forwarded to the number 7726 which is free of charge. Reported and sent above to this number.

reported fake text url to 7726

Needless to say do no click on links that turn out of the blue. Take time to research and check out this blog for advice and further information on similar scams.

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