Scam emails. How do you know if you have gotten a scam email or not a scam email?
There is only one way to know, if you know the sender and you regularly get emails from them or expect an email from them. Other than that it might be scam email.
Here is an example of a scam email I’ve gotten today. It’s a typical scam email and if you click on one of these you either going to have a hidden script installed on you computer that will send data to the sender, or else the screen that comes up after you click on a link in a scam email, will ask you for your login information by asking you to log in to check the order thus sending your login information to the sender of this scam email right away. (The blue text are links originally. Those are the ones you are supposed to click on).
“Hello,
Shipping Confirmation
Order # 249-0179155-2544972
Your estimated delivery date is:
Tuesday, December 30, 2011
Track your package Thank you for shopping with us. We thought you’d like to know that we shipped this portion of your order separately to give you quicker service. You won’t be charged any extra shipping fees, and the remainder of your order will follow as soon as those items become available. If you need to return an item from this shipment or manage other orders, please visit Your Orders on Amazon.com.
Shipment Details
Alvarez XQ24I3Q Regent Series Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar $109.95
Item Subtotal: $109.95
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Total Before Tax: $109.95
Shipment Total: $109.95
Paid by Visa: $109.95
You have only been charged for the items sent in this shipment. Per our policy, you only pay for items when we ship them to you.
Returns are easy. Visit our .
If you need further assistance with your order, please visit Customer Service.
We hope to see you again soon!
Amazon.com “
Friend of mine fell for one of these scam emails and money from his account was taken.
How to avoid falling victim to the scam emails? If it’s suspicious, don’t open it. Delete it. Did you ever heard this? ” curiosity killed the cat” What do you think why? Because the cat was too curious and wanted to check something out she wasn’t supposed to. So if you are curious, you can read more about how to find out where an email is coming from
As you know scam emails come in every form. If you look up the details of this sender you can see that it’s coming from Bilbao Spain. Email Scammers are everywhere. At the above link there is an explanation of how to find the origins of scam emails. Many of them are coming from Nigeria but lately there is a whole bunch of scam emails are coming from the USA and Holland.
If you right click an email and than click properties at the bottom and than click details on the next window than you usually see the return email address. it looks something like this. (red colored text)
“Delivered-To: xxxxxxx@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.61.202 with SMTP id u10cs290375bkh; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:44:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.152.131.131 with SMTP id om3mr28816626lab.38.1325177074801; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:44:34 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <tranquilizingasg40@ameriton.com> Received: from ZyWALL?2WG (54.62-99-70.static.clientes.euskaltel.es. [62.99.70.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id nq10si29670453lab.56.2011.12.29.08.44.32; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:44:34 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: best guess record for domain of transitioning tranquilizingasg40@ameriton.com does not designate 62.99.70.54 as permitted sender) client-ip=62.99.70.54; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: best guess record for domain of transitioning tranquilizingasg40@ameriton.com does not designate 62.99.70.54 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=tranquilizingasg40@ameriton.com Message-Id: <4efc98f2.ca80980a.3215.6f60SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:44:33 +0100 From: “Marylou English” <tranquilizingasg40@ameriton.com> To: <naw1510@gmail.com>, <jacobymonkey@gmail.com>, <lloydfchao@gmail.com>, <dbbsain03@gmail.com>, <jiganto@gmail.com>, <shivrajsm1@gmail.com>, <xxxxxx@gmail.com> Cc: <asen1276@gmail.com>, <saranya.esperanza@gmail.com> Subject: Your Amazon.com order of “Alvarez XQ24I3Q Regent Series Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar” has shipped! X-Mailer: cm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello,<br/><br/> Shipping Confirmation<br/> Order # <a href=”http://theequipments.com/blog/donmonnemonne/wp-content/plugins/is-human/gid10936.html”>249-0179155-2544972</a> <br/><br/> Your estimated delivery date is:<br/> Tuesday, December 30, 2011<br/><br/> <a href=”http://theequipments.com/blog/donmonnemonne/wp-content/plugins/is-human/gid10936.html”>Track your package</a>
Thank you for shopping with us. We thought you’d like to know that we shipped this portion of your order separately to give you quicker service. You won’t be charged any extra shipping fees, and the remainder of your order will follow as soon as those items become available. If you need to return an item from this shipment or manage other orders, please visit <a href=”http://theequipments.com/blog/donmonnemonne/wp-content/plugins/is-human/gid10936.html”>Your Orders</a> on <a href=”http://theequipments.com/blog/donmonnemonne/wp-content/plugins/is-human/gid10936.html”>Amazon.com</a>.<br/><br/> Shipment Details<br/><br/> Alvarez XQ24I3Q Regent Series Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar $109.95<br/> Item Subtotal: $109.95<br/> Shipping & Handling: $0.00<br/> Total Before Tax: $109.95<br/> Shipment Total: $109.95<br/> Paid by Visa: $109.95<br/><br/> You have only been charged for the items sent in this shipment. Per our policy, you only pay for items when we ship them to you. <br/><br/> Returns are easy. Visit our <Online Return Center>.<br/> If you need further assistance with your order, please visit <a href=”http://theequipments.com/blog/donmonnemonne/wp-content/plugins/is-human/gid10936.html”>Customer Service</a>.<br/><br/> We hope to see you again soon!<br/> Amazon.com”
I just marked some text above in red in this scam email and as you can see there is quite a few discrepancies noticeable.
Next time you get a suspicious email and think it might be a scam email, check it out. Only takes a minute or less but can save your money.
This email scam is obviously using Amazon which is a respected online store and scammers know this. Setting up scam emails as if their were coming from a legitimate business is quite common lately. This is not a fishing email because that looks different. This email scam purposefully want to get your money by getting you to click on the any of the links they’ve included.
Watch out for scam emails and save your money