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  • 20-06-2014 10:19pm
    #1
    kline64
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭


    Hi dont know if this is the right place to post this but could anyone no why i keep getting emails from amazon thanking me for my order (which i have never made) & gives me the name of the person & where its being delivered to but thanking me for ordering of them. i have no idea why im getting them


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  • #2
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    Probably spam or a phishing email.
    Are you getting these emails to an email address you have registered with Amazon,?


  • #3
    kline64
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭kline64


    Hi im not even registered with amazon! Its the fact that they are telling me that i ordered stuff of them & is being delivered to someone i don't even know,


  • #4
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    kline64 wrote: »
    Hi im not even registered with amazon! Its the fact that they are telling me that i ordered stuff of them & is being delivered to someone i don't even know,

    Is it the same delivery person each time?

    Maybe they put the wrong email address when they signed up.


  • #5
    CathalC2011
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭CathalC2011


    Spoofing an email 'sender' is trivial. Check the email headers. Customer information disclosures are not to be taken lightly - this is highly unlikely to be a mistake on Amazon's part.

    As someone mentioned above, it's almost certainly spam.


  • #6
    liamo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭liamo


    As already noted, it's unlikely that Amazon have made a mistake.

    You could go to Amazon's login page and click on their "Forgot Password" link and enter your email address there and see if you get a password reset link sent to you.

    Of course, do NOT click on any links in the emails that you've been getting. Enter Amazon's URL manually into a browser.

    I had a similar experience recently with Instagram where I was getting emails which I initially thought were spam. Eventually I went to Instgram and went through the "Forgot Password" process and there was, indeed, an account using my email address as the account identifier. The original user had obviously made a stupid mistake when changing his account details and Instagram didn't follow it up with a confirmation URL to the target email address.

    It's possible (but probably not very likely) that this is the case here. More likely, as already noted, they're phishing attempts.


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  • #7
    kline64
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭kline64


    Ok thanks i will try that & see what happens,thanks


  • #8
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,247 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    kline64 wrote: »
    Hi im not even registered with amazon! Its the fact that they are telling me that i ordered stuff of them & is being delivered to someone i don't even know,
    there's your clue


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