Hackers collect your personal data by asking you to log into your Amazon account.
A new scam seems to be wreaking havoc in Belgium. Several readers forwarded us emails from Amazon’s so-called after-sales service asking them to urgently log into their account to resolve a payment problem.
“Dear customer, your recent payment for your Prime subscription was unsuccessful. Following these facts, we have taken the decision to end your subscription. If you do not verify within 24 hours, access to your account may be temporarily restricted and you will be charged €39.99”explains the email in question.
By clicking on the link, the Internet user is invited to connect with his Amazon account and unknowingly communicates the identifiers of his personal account, giving access to some of his personal data and indirectly allowing his account to be hacked.
However, several elements make it possible to identify the scam quickly: the email is sent from an address that has no connection with Amazon and above all lacks logic since it evokes the failure of a payment which is followed by a threat billing.
As always in this case, you should be careful and if you have fallen into the trap of changing your identifiers as soon as possible, on the Amazon site but also on all the other sites to which you have connected with the same identifiers.
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