Amazon Message . Scam ?

[derekpara]

I've just received a message purporting to be from Amazon Customer Service Team that they will no longer be keeping personal data on their server more than six months and for this the account must be validated & payment details verified every six months. There is a link, and then it goes on....... ' The Procedure for disabling the account according to Terms and Conditions of Usage will take place in the 24 hours after this e-mail is send (sic) '

I am then warned that if I don't follow the procedure within that time frame I won't be able to purchase from Amazon and all deliveries will be cancelled - plus other penalties.

The message has poor grammar and spelling and I am suspicious. Is it a scam ?

[murraymints]

scam..delete

[murraymints]

report to AMAZON

[dannyk13]

Sounds very much like it.If you are in doubt contact Amazon.

[ummmm]

Just delete it.

I don't even open emails from companies I haven't contacted first.

[saintstim]

Yes definitely a scam. If you hover your mouse over the sender it will probably show up an email address that is clearly nothing to do with amazon.
I get quite a few of these purporting to come from one server or another.
It probably originates from Nigeria.

[dannyk13]

Maybe Derek has an Amazon account.

[ummmm]

I have an Amazon account. Even if my details had been questioned I wouldn't know because I just delete the emails. Nothing has ever happened to my account.

If I contact Amazon you can see the email ref when they reply.

[fiction-factory]

And Amazon will address you buy name not by some like "dear customer" or "dear fiction-factory @ gmail.whatever"

[fiction-factory]

by not buy!

[derekpara]

Exactly as I suspected. Message deleted.

Thanks to you all.

Cheers.

D

[Guilbert53]

>>>Is it a scam ?

Why do you even need to ask?

Anything with bad spelling and grammar should send out a warning.

Plus no company is going to disable accounts and delete customers from their site for no reason at all.

Also generally ANY email that says you need to "verify your account" or words to that effect will be a scam.

[aelmpvw]

wish i'd got a pound for every non existent account i've been asked to verify ...

[melv16]

I also get them from facebook. I opened one of them and it was an advert for Viagra...do they know something I don't ;-)

[maggiebee]

Lots of scams like this around. I keep getting told my Paypal account has been compromised! Just delete.

[maggiebee]

Ha ha melv - I keep getting told that gorgeous Russian girls want to date me. As a 70 year old female I very much doubt it!

[goodgoalie]

I've recently had scam emails from Amazon, PayPal and iTunes - never click on links or open attachments, just delete

[derekpara]

Guilbert53 ' Why do you even need to ask ?'

Firstly, I was convinced it was a scam and would have deleted it.

Secondly, I thought it might produce useful answers and information for other, less suspicious, recipients. OK ?