All you Amazon shoppers...

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Got several spam emails lately, a couple from Amazon for being such a loyal customer all I needed to do was take a survey and I would get a free something or other. Can't remember, but it might have been a gift card. The giveaway there is that I haven't used my account there in years, Pat has a Prime account and does my Amazon buying. The other giveaway other than the poor grammar, is the link address, not Amazon.

The other ones were from places like Target and Home Depot. Same garbage, and no, they are not giving things away, that's the first clue....

I got the same one as Don did......  It was a gift card....

Always  always ALWAYS.....  Check the destination link!

Move your pointer (hover) over the "click here" link, box, button... whatever.....
The link will appear in a box somewhere and you have to really make sure the link is a good one.
If it seems too long in length, it's a fake.

in this case, if it doesn't say  -- www . amazon . com --   it's a fake!
One I saw recently was:  www . amason . com  ----  Crafty darn people!!!!

I'm getting about 5 a day either for some AARP surveys or some other gift cards.   I block as many as I feel like at the time, but it never ends 

I would really hate to see anyone here get hacked.  and yeah, I've been "got" twice, once at home and once at work.
The only good part about work is; I clicked the fake link 2 weeks after the big boss clicked a bad link, so they couldn't say anything.....

Please, everyone, be careful...