Is this spam or is the amazon notice real?

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I got this from order-update at amazon.com; dummy opened it. (I had recently looked at amazon for dog food reviews, and thought, did I actually order? Well, no,)

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Amazon.com - Your Cancellation (14-766-968)

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Dear Customer,

Your order has been successfully canceled. For your reference, here's a summary of your order:

You just canceled order 14-766-968 placed on May 2, 2012.

Status: CANCELED

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1 "Scoring"; 2002, Special Edition
By: Morgan Miller

Sold by: Amazon.com LLC

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Thank you for visiting Amazon.com!

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osso - I take it to be that some scam ordered viagra or similar for me. Huh.
I look at Amazon, but haven't ordered in over a year. I'm now assuming both are spam.

What say?

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@ossobuco,

The best way to know if it's a scam is if they address you by a general term like "customer" and not your real name. Amazon knows your real name and would use it in any correspondence. Same is true of Paypal or your bank.

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@ossobuco,

Generally, what you'll find is that links in the message to not direct you back to the correct website.

Do not click on the links to test it. Instead, hover your mouse over the link, and it should display the actual URL.

Alternately, right-click the link, select "copy shortcut" or similar option, and then paste the text into a text editor. Then you can see where they were really trying to send you.

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@DrewDad,

Something else you can do is go directly to the Amazon website, log in, and check your order history.

Don't ever click links in E-mail unless you're absolutely positive that you know who sent the message, and you check that the links send you where you really want to go.

It doesn't matter how smart you are, everybody gets played from time-to-time. I can't tell you how many times a bank president has opened up one of these because he was just sure that he had won a free gift card....

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@DrewDad,

DrewDad wrote:

Something else you can do is go directly to the Amazon website, log in, and check your order history.

Don't ever click links in E-mail unless you're absolutely positive that you know who sent the message, and you check that the links send you where you really want to go.

The sites where these phishing links will send you tend to be pretty polished and professional looking as they are designed to look like their legal counterparts (barring a few glaring errors of grammar or some kind of glitches in their site's illustration that most people wouldn't notice unless they were looking for them).

Reiterating DrewDad's solid plan of attack. I do that when I get weird and unexpected emails from my bank. Open up another browser or browser tab and go directly to the source (bank or store website). Sign in and see what's written on your account wall then. If these two sources (email and account page) mesh up then the email is credible. If the purchase cancellation isn't noted on your account page then the email is totally bogus.

I would then report the email by forwarding it Antiphishing Web Group.http://www.antiphishing.org/

A nonprofit security group that investigates illicit and illegal phishing campaigns so they warn the corporations and their clients who are targeted and mimicked.

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@DrewDad,

I didn't click on the link (the number). I hope - I never do that. Now I'm wondering if I did. But I know better and never do. (circular discussion with self)
Hovering with my old mouse does no good.
Right, I will go to amazon and check my last order. Been busy doing six things, hadn't thought further.

Thanks folks.

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@ossobuco,

Maybe your new pooch ordered something.

I have to watch my boys like a hawk since I got that delivery of 50 pounds of catnip.

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@ossobuco,

Ok, no orders and no one else did on my account either. Changed password while I was at it.
Will report to that phishing site.

Now I know how this happened. Yahoo sent me a notice a few months ago that my password was breached or some such word, and I had used it on several sites. I have made every password different for a few years now, but hadn't cleaned up all of them of the past... until I got the Yahoo message. So, after that I changed the ones with that password - hah, but missed one, amazon.

Thanks again.

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@chai2,

Catnip! Does it grow there? I've catmint in my yard - it brings me the odd visit from a marmalade neighbor. Can't remember if that's when it is in bloom.

Mmm, Katy doesn't know how to type..
I don't think.

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@ossobuco,

I've gotten alot of spam with the RE line saying something along the lines of your amazon order canceled.

Knowing I haven't ordered anything since Christmas from amazon, I've not opened them so not sure what the details say.

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