weird emails from Amazon

[chicken]

Each day for the past week I've gotten an email from Amazon confirming the cancellation of orders on my account.

I never ordered anything. I never even got emails confirming an order. The weird thing is that the canceled items are things that relate to my previous purchases (textbooks for my grad program, TTC books). Nothing has been charged to my credit card.

I changed my password 3 days ago, but received more messages after that. I will have to delete my account and create a new one.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Any ideas on why this is happening, or how I can prevent it from occurring on my new account?

[vanillacourage]

It's spam. If you hover over the link you'll see that it's not hosted by Amazon. Just mark the sender as spam in your email program.

[milkrations]

Seems like it is a phishing scam: www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx2G2JHULWMHGDR

Instructions for reporting it to Amazon are here: www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx2G2JHULWMHGDR

[MrsAxilla]

I've been getting those, too, but they're for books I've never heard of. Weird and annoying.

[shell403b]

Thank you for posting this question. It's been happening to me for a few weeks now and was totally weird. Now I understand...thanks for the info!

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[Deleted]

I got one too. Spam

[fluffycookie]

I got one to for some book I have never even heard of. Gmail flagged it as spam and had a note on the top that said I was suspicious.

[jm1982]

i do think it's odd that you recognize the items as books that you *have* purchased, rather than just random items you've never heard of, like the other posters are talking about.

if most/all of the emails refer to purchases that you recognize, i think i'd call amazon customer service to see what they have to say about the situation.

[bookqueen15]

I got one too, definitely spam.

[mbcdefg]

I got them a few weeks ago, and so did my husband and my mom.

[chicken]

Thanks guys, I took a closer look at the emails and they do appear to be spam. I feel like an idiot for not thinking of that earlier! I did report it to Amazon, though, since they ARE items that I've purchased or are related to items I've purchased. Smart spammers.

[pacificrules]

May 13, 2012 19:35:59 GMT -5 vanillacourage said:

It's spam. If you hover over the link you'll see that it's not hosted by Amazon. Just mark the sender as spam in your email program.

This is a good tip and the way I find it easy to figure out if something is spam or not. I think you contacting customer service in this situation is a good idea.

[PinkSquirrel]

I got one this week, but it was a book i ordered. So, I think mine may be legit, but it's funny I got my first cancellation when everyone is getting spam

[pacificrules]

May 13, 2012 21:57:52 GMT -5 PinkSquirrel said:

I got one this week, but it was a book i ordered. So, I think mine may be legit, but it's funny I got my first cancellation when everyone is getting spam

Did you cancel the order? Like PP said, hover over the link and see if it actually directs you to amazon.com. If not, maybe OP is right and they have access to ordering history.