Saturday, October 28, 2017

Amazon Prime Phishing email with subject Update Required: Payment Failed for Amazon Prime


For the record, this is a Amazon Prime 
phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject line "Update Required: Payment Failed for Amazon Prime". 

What to do?  
Report them, go to bottom of page. 


From : no-reply@prime.com <gave@agavect.com>

Subject
 : Update Required: Payment Failed for Amazon Prime



PHISHING LINKs;

1. https://qr.me-qr.com/ssss?userid=xxxxx


How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

  1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
  2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the  company's website then forget it.
  3. The best way is to 

How to examine Email Message Source ?

Now lets look at message source
  1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
  2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.
Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from apple.com.


Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

  1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
  2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing to Google

If you have received this email, take further action by

  1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

  1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

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