Amazon Vishing

Sample Amazon Vishing attempt

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Got a text message about my Amazon account being suspended due to suspicious activity. Text message with stellar English.

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PSA: this is one of the blog posts that is getting plagiarized. Hoping Google legal team is going to help as I have reported it to them.

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I was going to try to report this to Amazon but when I went to the link in a browser the first time I got a 500 error. The page worked on a mobile device. I went back to the browser and the second time the page works.

The thing is, I’m already logged into one Amazon account (I have a few for different purposes). When I try to go to the page to report suspicious activity, it tries to force me to login again even though I’m already logged in.

I don’t feel like logging in at the moment so I’ll just post the text message here in case it helps anyone else.

It seems to be a domain in Singapore but I don’t have time to review it further.

I’m guessing they are just randomly generating phone numbers and sending text messages but who knows — I started getting more text spam when I switched to AT&T. Could it be during the transfer process from Verizon or Activation process at AT&T or is it just random? Who knows.

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