Pieter Arntz, a malware intelligence researcher at Malwarebytes, has issued a timely July 16 reminder that “scammers are impersonating Amazon in a Prime membership scam.”
The cause of Arntz’s reminder, and the underlying Amazon warning to all 220 million Prime customers, however, was a spike in email attacks claiming that subscription rates are about to rise, along with a cancel subscription button that would lead to Prime account credential theft.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
on 20 Jul 17:46
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220 million reasons why you shouldn’t have a prime account.
edit: Jesus Christ, y’all know I’m right that’s why you can’t say anything back.
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Pieter Arntz, a malware intelligence researcher at Malwarebytes, has issued a timely July 16 reminder that “scammers are impersonating Amazon in a Prime membership scam.”
The cause of Arntz’s reminder, and the underlying Amazon warning to all 220 million Prime customers, however, was a spike in email attacks claiming that subscription rates are about to rise, along with a cancel subscription button that would lead to Prime account credential theft.
220 million reasons why you shouldn’t have a prime account.
edit: Jesus Christ, y’all know I’m right that’s why you can’t say anything back.