The Fake Amazon Security Notice

This should be an easy one.

Let me start by sharing the picture that was shared with me.

When you receive text messages such as these, you may be inclined to click right on that link, knock something else off your to-do list, and be done.

Well, in this case, that could get you into a lot of trouble.

Now, I know what many of you are thinking.

I would never click on that.

Are you sure?

According to an article by Wylie Communications, “. . . just 19% of participants in a Harris Interactive poll read articles word-by-word. Many more skim mostly headlines (34%) or the full article (25%).

Now imagine if the text above is one of 50 text messages that flood your cell phone on any given day.

Can you honestly say that you read every word?

Do you read every contract that you sign and every word in the contract?

If you’ve purchased or rented a home, did you read every word of the documents that you had to sign?

If there’s one thing that I think people do read, it’s comments under a post that’s hilarious, offensive, or entertaining. Otherwise, forget it.

I came straight to the comments, and they did not disappoint.

Tell me if that’s been you.

But let’s break down this text message.

1. Did you order something from Amazon? According to Capital One, “on an average day, Amazon customers place an estimated 11.95 million orders, equivalent to 497,884 product orders per hour or 8,298 orders per minute.” Scammers are betting you might have placed an order on Amazon and respond to their text.

2. Do you live in India? If not, then your blood pressure went up a bit when you saw that someone had supposedly logged into your account from India. Well, that’s what the scammers want. They want you to react.

3. Did you look at the link you were supposed to click on? It’s an alphabet soup link. It is not anything that you should be trusting.

So, here are a few rules to consider.

First, if you receive a text that you have questions about, pause. Take sometime to research what’s going on.

Second, independently verify the information being shared with you. In this case, that means going directly to your Amazon account instead of clicking on anything in the text.

Third, make sure that you don’t respond once you realize that it’s a fake text. You don’t want them knowing that they have reached a person that they can try to scam again.

Be safe out there.

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