Spoofed email from Amazon

[Anonymous]

I'm getting a spoofed email from Amazon almost daily. I use Yahoo Mail, and although I've added the address to my spam list, it continues to appear in my inbox instead of going to my spam folder. What gives?

[jsteele]

It's the latest trend in spam. I get one almost every day. Just delete them. I wouldn't even bother marking them as spam because then actual messages from Amazon might get filtered.

[ThatSmileyFaceGuy]

I get them too almost daily. Saying I've cancelled an order. I did log in to Amazon (of course in another window ) to check to see if someone hacked my account but the only recent purchaces were ones that I had made.

[Anonymous]

ThatSmileyFaceGuy wrote:I get them too almost daily. Saying I've cancelled an order. I did log in to Amazon (of course in another window ) to check to see if someone hacked my account but the only recent purchaces were ones that I had made.

Me too. I had about 5 of them yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Crap, I'm getting these emails as well.

[Anonymous]

me too. It's not even the email I use for Amazon.

[Anonymous]

Amazon has it as an alert on their website, if you go to security settings or something, it has a link to "are these emails real?" and it explains they're not coming from Amazon.

[Anonymous]

I am getting them too!

[Anonymous]

i'm getting them as well. Last week I sent a copy to amazon and they replied that yeah, they know about it and just delete it. This gets so old.

[Anonymous]

Yep....get them too. They almost fooled me because I order from Amazon all the time.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:It's the latest trend in spam. I get one almost every day. Just delete them. I wouldn't even bother marking them as spam because then actual messages from Amazon might get filtered.

No. I've got them marked as spam. Real messages from amazon don't get flagged because these messages are not coming from amazon. Even with the spoofed From address, mailers are smart enough to store actual routing information in the headers. The Yahoo! (and other mailers) spam filters are not fooled. I've had these marked as spam for a while and these message to to my Spam box, but real messages from Amazon come into my inbox. Go ahead and flag them.

[Anonymous]

Yes I've been getting a lot of those too and they never get marked as spam in my yahoo inbox. I ALWAYS look at where a link goes before I click on it, no matter who it is from. If you hover over the links in those emails, you'll see they don't go to amazon.