BEWARE SCAMMERS TARGETING AMAZON SELLERS "Greetings from Amazon Services"
Hi i received an email from this "seller-notification@a27695403puh-amazon.com" on my registered seller central email address and it stated the following information given below:
"Greetings from Amazon Services.
We were unable to verify the credit card information you provided for your seller account.
What to do next?
- Reply to this message with the last 4 digits of your card on file and request a re-evaluation.
- A verification link will be sent to you to update your account credit/card or bank account.
Once your information has been updated and verified, payment will be initiated on your next settlement date and your listings will remain active.
If you believe that your credit card information was entered correctly and that you have received this message in error, please contact your bank for verification.
Thank you for selling on Amazon.
Amazon Services"
So then i replied with by last 4 digits of the credit card information associated with the account then i received an email stating the following:
“Hello,
Thank you for contacting us. We are still reviewing your account, to get started please click on “Verify Now” to initiate the Identity Verification workflow.
Verify Now
(Log in required)”
Next i logged into my account and it said success everything is successful and your account is reinstated which sounded very different to me as my account was not suspended or blocked or anything and i left for a while but then it got me thinking and as the email stated about credit card information and i checked that was okay but when i checked the DEPOSIT information it was changed to a different account number and a bank in SPAIN and it stated my company name on it which got me thinking this is crazy so straight away i did the following;
1- i changed the bank deposit information back to the normal account info which i use for my funds.
2-i deleted the information associated with the account in SPAIN which i do not have or doesn’t even exist
3- i changed all my passwords for my seller central account in Europe and USA
4-I put the security feature on for requiring authentication codes to mobile on any device before logging into my account
I went on google to check this and found out its a SCAM so my account was hacked however i do have everything under control now as i changed everything or do i really ?
please tell me what i can do about it and also please do something about this scam as if i did not notice my information being changed i would have lost alot of my current balance on amazon.
Amazon should also work on stopping these elaborate scams and warm the sellers that use this platform too many thanks
42 replies
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
You should consider clearing your bowsers cache, restarting your machine then log into Seller Central and change your password. If you haven’t already enable 2FA you should also definitely do so now.
Amazon’s cyber-crimes division works very hard to combat issues like yours, but unfortunately, if someone spoofs an email (it is relatively simple to change the From and Reply to headers in an email) and someone clicks on a link inside the email and the link takes the user to a webpage that looks identical to the Amazon login webpage. If the user enters their credentials and the fake page records the entered information. Unfortunately, Amazon would have a very difficult time determining that somebody with the correct username and password wasn’t authorized to have access to the account.
This type of attack (spoofing), where a real user gives bad guys their account credentials on a fake website is almost impossible to prevent by Amazon. I personally never click on links in emails. Anytime Amazon sends an email I can always find out if it is real by logging directly into Amazon Seller Central from my browsers and then checking my notifications there.
Seller_olet7eVOHxQZd
REALLY!!! Shame on you! But I guess thanks for those post as it might warn others.
The email address is a bunchofjunk–amazon.com
And it asked about credit card info.
Do not click links in emails you are not expecting. If you just signed up for something and they told you they would send a link to verify your email…ok. Better companies now just ask for a code from the email.
Seller_wk6B8kLUR0ymX
hello , can you please send the screenshot of email address. Thank you!
Seller_vx0Xy0bsAR4gB
I think I get more email from Scammers than I do from customers 
Seller_32OszqbFIYPSi
Golden Rule - Never, never log in to your Amazon Seller Account via an email link.
If there are problems with your selling account, there will be notifications from Amazon within your Seller Central account.
Seller_W8eSvWihXwrAN
Wow. Sorry to hear this happened to you.
It’s a tough day.
I on the other hand have had an absolutely brilliant day.
I don’t want to divulge too much but suffice it to say I’m expecting a handsome paycheck coming from Nigeria.
Seller_yj8MHE96mnkjD
You can go to FBI.gov & click on “Cyber Crimes” & visit the Internet Crimes Complaint Center “IC3” & report your incident.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center
The mission of the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is to provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the FBI concerning suspected Internet-facilitated fraud schemes and to develop effective alliances with law enforcement and industry partners. Information is analyzed and disseminated for investigative and intelligence purposes to law enforcement and for public awareness.
Visit the IC3’s website for more information, including IC3 annual reports.
I am retired law enforcement & that is what I would do if I were you.
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
Oh and because your spoof story interested me, Here is the WHOIS information for you.
Domain Name: A27695403PUH-AMAZON.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2366854698_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.domain.com
Registrar URL: www.domain.com
Updated Date: 2019-03-06T22:24:07
Creation Date: 2019-03-06T22:24:07
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-03-06T22:24:07
Registrar: Domain.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 886
Reseller: iPage
Name Server: ns1.ipage.com
Name Server: ns2.ipage.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: @domain-inc.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6027165396
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/Last update of WHOIS database: 2019-03-06T22:24:07 <<<
“For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp”
Registration Service Provider:
iPage, @ipage-inc.com
+1.8774724399
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
You can take this information to your local police or sheriff and they can contact the registar (domain.com and ipage) and start tracking this guy down. They will also shut-down his domain so nobody else gets spoofed.
Seller_myoB69lOiJNbe
Most usually, legit emails from Amazon has this logo. I almost got trapped from one of those phishing emails, too, but fortunately, I realized that it might be a scam before I clicked the links that was provided in that email. So I contacted seller support and they made it perfectly clear to me that it was some form of phishing these scammers do. 
BEWARE SCAMMERS TARGETING AMAZON SELLERS "Greetings from Amazon Services"
Hi i received an email from this "seller-notification@a27695403puh-amazon.com" on my registered seller central email address and it stated the following information given below:
"Greetings from Amazon Services.
We were unable to verify the credit card information you provided for your seller account.
What to do next?
- Reply to this message with the last 4 digits of your card on file and request a re-evaluation.
- A verification link will be sent to you to update your account credit/card or bank account.
Once your information has been updated and verified, payment will be initiated on your next settlement date and your listings will remain active.
If you believe that your credit card information was entered correctly and that you have received this message in error, please contact your bank for verification.
Thank you for selling on Amazon.
Amazon Services"
So then i replied with by last 4 digits of the credit card information associated with the account then i received an email stating the following:
“Hello,
Thank you for contacting us. We are still reviewing your account, to get started please click on “Verify Now” to initiate the Identity Verification workflow.
Verify Now
(Log in required)”
Next i logged into my account and it said success everything is successful and your account is reinstated which sounded very different to me as my account was not suspended or blocked or anything and i left for a while but then it got me thinking and as the email stated about credit card information and i checked that was okay but when i checked the DEPOSIT information it was changed to a different account number and a bank in SPAIN and it stated my company name on it which got me thinking this is crazy so straight away i did the following;
1- i changed the bank deposit information back to the normal account info which i use for my funds.
2-i deleted the information associated with the account in SPAIN which i do not have or doesn’t even exist
3- i changed all my passwords for my seller central account in Europe and USA
4-I put the security feature on for requiring authentication codes to mobile on any device before logging into my account
I went on google to check this and found out its a SCAM so my account was hacked however i do have everything under control now as i changed everything or do i really ?
please tell me what i can do about it and also please do something about this scam as if i did not notice my information being changed i would have lost alot of my current balance on amazon.
Amazon should also work on stopping these elaborate scams and warm the sellers that use this platform too many thanks
BEWARE SCAMMERS TARGETING AMAZON SELLERS "Greetings from Amazon Services"
Hi i received an email from this "seller-notification@a27695403puh-amazon.com" on my registered seller central email address and it stated the following information given below:
"Greetings from Amazon Services.
We were unable to verify the credit card information you provided for your seller account.
What to do next?
- Reply to this message with the last 4 digits of your card on file and request a re-evaluation.
- A verification link will be sent to you to update your account credit/card or bank account.
Once your information has been updated and verified, payment will be initiated on your next settlement date and your listings will remain active.
If you believe that your credit card information was entered correctly and that you have received this message in error, please contact your bank for verification.
Thank you for selling on Amazon.
Amazon Services"
So then i replied with by last 4 digits of the credit card information associated with the account then i received an email stating the following:
“Hello,
Thank you for contacting us. We are still reviewing your account, to get started please click on “Verify Now” to initiate the Identity Verification workflow.
Verify Now
(Log in required)”
Next i logged into my account and it said success everything is successful and your account is reinstated which sounded very different to me as my account was not suspended or blocked or anything and i left for a while but then it got me thinking and as the email stated about credit card information and i checked that was okay but when i checked the DEPOSIT information it was changed to a different account number and a bank in SPAIN and it stated my company name on it which got me thinking this is crazy so straight away i did the following;
1- i changed the bank deposit information back to the normal account info which i use for my funds.
2-i deleted the information associated with the account in SPAIN which i do not have or doesn’t even exist
3- i changed all my passwords for my seller central account in Europe and USA
4-I put the security feature on for requiring authentication codes to mobile on any device before logging into my account
I went on google to check this and found out its a SCAM so my account was hacked however i do have everything under control now as i changed everything or do i really ?
please tell me what i can do about it and also please do something about this scam as if i did not notice my information being changed i would have lost alot of my current balance on amazon.
Amazon should also work on stopping these elaborate scams and warm the sellers that use this platform too many thanks
42 replies
42 replies
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
You should consider clearing your bowsers cache, restarting your machine then log into Seller Central and change your password. If you haven’t already enable 2FA you should also definitely do so now.
Amazon’s cyber-crimes division works very hard to combat issues like yours, but unfortunately, if someone spoofs an email (it is relatively simple to change the From and Reply to headers in an email) and someone clicks on a link inside the email and the link takes the user to a webpage that looks identical to the Amazon login webpage. If the user enters their credentials and the fake page records the entered information. Unfortunately, Amazon would have a very difficult time determining that somebody with the correct username and password wasn’t authorized to have access to the account.
This type of attack (spoofing), where a real user gives bad guys their account credentials on a fake website is almost impossible to prevent by Amazon. I personally never click on links in emails. Anytime Amazon sends an email I can always find out if it is real by logging directly into Amazon Seller Central from my browsers and then checking my notifications there.
Seller_olet7eVOHxQZd
REALLY!!! Shame on you! But I guess thanks for those post as it might warn others.
The email address is a bunchofjunk–amazon.com
And it asked about credit card info.
Do not click links in emails you are not expecting. If you just signed up for something and they told you they would send a link to verify your email…ok. Better companies now just ask for a code from the email.
Seller_wk6B8kLUR0ymX
hello , can you please send the screenshot of email address. Thank you!
Seller_vx0Xy0bsAR4gB
I think I get more email from Scammers than I do from customers
Seller_32OszqbFIYPSi
Golden Rule - Never, never log in to your Amazon Seller Account via an email link.
If there are problems with your selling account, there will be notifications from Amazon within your Seller Central account.
Seller_W8eSvWihXwrAN
Wow. Sorry to hear this happened to you.
It’s a tough day.
I on the other hand have had an absolutely brilliant day.
I don’t want to divulge too much but suffice it to say I’m expecting a handsome paycheck coming from Nigeria.
Seller_yj8MHE96mnkjD
You can go to FBI.gov & click on “Cyber Crimes” & visit the Internet Crimes Complaint Center “IC3” & report your incident.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center
The mission of the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is to provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the FBI concerning suspected Internet-facilitated fraud schemes and to develop effective alliances with law enforcement and industry partners. Information is analyzed and disseminated for investigative and intelligence purposes to law enforcement and for public awareness.
Visit the IC3’s website for more information, including IC3 annual reports.
I am retired law enforcement & that is what I would do if I were you.
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
Oh and because your spoof story interested me, Here is the WHOIS information for you.
Domain Name: A27695403PUH-AMAZON.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2366854698_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.domain.com
Registrar URL: www.domain.com
Updated Date: 2019-03-06T22:24:07
Creation Date: 2019-03-06T22:24:07
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-03-06T22:24:07
Registrar: Domain.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 886
Reseller: iPage
Name Server: ns1.ipage.com
Name Server: ns2.ipage.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: @domain-inc.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6027165396
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/Last update of WHOIS database: 2019-03-06T22:24:07 <<<
“For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp”
Registration Service Provider:
iPage, @ipage-inc.com
+1.8774724399
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
You can take this information to your local police or sheriff and they can contact the registar (domain.com and ipage) and start tracking this guy down. They will also shut-down his domain so nobody else gets spoofed.
Seller_myoB69lOiJNbe
Most usually, legit emails from Amazon has this logo. I almost got trapped from one of those phishing emails, too, but fortunately, I realized that it might be a scam before I clicked the links that was provided in that email. So I contacted seller support and they made it perfectly clear to me that it was some form of phishing these scammers do.
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
You should consider clearing your bowsers cache, restarting your machine then log into Seller Central and change your password. If you haven’t already enable 2FA you should also definitely do so now.
Amazon’s cyber-crimes division works very hard to combat issues like yours, but unfortunately, if someone spoofs an email (it is relatively simple to change the From and Reply to headers in an email) and someone clicks on a link inside the email and the link takes the user to a webpage that looks identical to the Amazon login webpage. If the user enters their credentials and the fake page records the entered information. Unfortunately, Amazon would have a very difficult time determining that somebody with the correct username and password wasn’t authorized to have access to the account.
This type of attack (spoofing), where a real user gives bad guys their account credentials on a fake website is almost impossible to prevent by Amazon. I personally never click on links in emails. Anytime Amazon sends an email I can always find out if it is real by logging directly into Amazon Seller Central from my browsers and then checking my notifications there.
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
You should consider clearing your bowsers cache, restarting your machine then log into Seller Central and change your password. If you haven’t already enable 2FA you should also definitely do so now.
Amazon’s cyber-crimes division works very hard to combat issues like yours, but unfortunately, if someone spoofs an email (it is relatively simple to change the From and Reply to headers in an email) and someone clicks on a link inside the email and the link takes the user to a webpage that looks identical to the Amazon login webpage. If the user enters their credentials and the fake page records the entered information. Unfortunately, Amazon would have a very difficult time determining that somebody with the correct username and password wasn’t authorized to have access to the account.
This type of attack (spoofing), where a real user gives bad guys their account credentials on a fake website is almost impossible to prevent by Amazon. I personally never click on links in emails. Anytime Amazon sends an email I can always find out if it is real by logging directly into Amazon Seller Central from my browsers and then checking my notifications there.
Seller_olet7eVOHxQZd
REALLY!!! Shame on you! But I guess thanks for those post as it might warn others.
The email address is a bunchofjunk–amazon.com
And it asked about credit card info.
Do not click links in emails you are not expecting. If you just signed up for something and they told you they would send a link to verify your email…ok. Better companies now just ask for a code from the email.
Seller_olet7eVOHxQZd
REALLY!!! Shame on you! But I guess thanks for those post as it might warn others.
The email address is a bunchofjunk–amazon.com
And it asked about credit card info.
Do not click links in emails you are not expecting. If you just signed up for something and they told you they would send a link to verify your email…ok. Better companies now just ask for a code from the email.
Seller_wk6B8kLUR0ymX
hello , can you please send the screenshot of email address. Thank you!
Seller_wk6B8kLUR0ymX
hello , can you please send the screenshot of email address. Thank you!
Seller_vx0Xy0bsAR4gB
I think I get more email from Scammers than I do from customers
Seller_vx0Xy0bsAR4gB
I think I get more email from Scammers than I do from customers
Seller_32OszqbFIYPSi
Golden Rule - Never, never log in to your Amazon Seller Account via an email link.
If there are problems with your selling account, there will be notifications from Amazon within your Seller Central account.
Seller_32OszqbFIYPSi
Golden Rule - Never, never log in to your Amazon Seller Account via an email link.
If there are problems with your selling account, there will be notifications from Amazon within your Seller Central account.
Seller_W8eSvWihXwrAN
Wow. Sorry to hear this happened to you.
It’s a tough day.
I on the other hand have had an absolutely brilliant day.
I don’t want to divulge too much but suffice it to say I’m expecting a handsome paycheck coming from Nigeria.
Seller_W8eSvWihXwrAN
Wow. Sorry to hear this happened to you.
It’s a tough day.
I on the other hand have had an absolutely brilliant day.
I don’t want to divulge too much but suffice it to say I’m expecting a handsome paycheck coming from Nigeria.
Seller_yj8MHE96mnkjD
You can go to FBI.gov & click on “Cyber Crimes” & visit the Internet Crimes Complaint Center “IC3” & report your incident.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center
The mission of the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is to provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the FBI concerning suspected Internet-facilitated fraud schemes and to develop effective alliances with law enforcement and industry partners. Information is analyzed and disseminated for investigative and intelligence purposes to law enforcement and for public awareness.
Visit the IC3’s website for more information, including IC3 annual reports.
I am retired law enforcement & that is what I would do if I were you.
Seller_yj8MHE96mnkjD
You can go to FBI.gov & click on “Cyber Crimes” & visit the Internet Crimes Complaint Center “IC3” & report your incident.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center
The mission of the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is to provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the FBI concerning suspected Internet-facilitated fraud schemes and to develop effective alliances with law enforcement and industry partners. Information is analyzed and disseminated for investigative and intelligence purposes to law enforcement and for public awareness.
Visit the IC3’s website for more information, including IC3 annual reports.
I am retired law enforcement & that is what I would do if I were you.
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
Oh and because your spoof story interested me, Here is the WHOIS information for you.
Domain Name: A27695403PUH-AMAZON.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2366854698_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.domain.com
Registrar URL: www.domain.com
Updated Date: 2019-03-06T22:24:07
Creation Date: 2019-03-06T22:24:07
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-03-06T22:24:07
Registrar: Domain.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 886
Reseller: iPage
Name Server: ns1.ipage.com
Name Server: ns2.ipage.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: @domain-inc.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6027165396
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/Last update of WHOIS database: 2019-03-06T22:24:07 <<<
“For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp”
Registration Service Provider:
iPage, @ipage-inc.com
+1.8774724399
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
You can take this information to your local police or sheriff and they can contact the registar (domain.com and ipage) and start tracking this guy down. They will also shut-down his domain so nobody else gets spoofed.
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
Oh and because your spoof story interested me, Here is the WHOIS information for you.
Domain Name: A27695403PUH-AMAZON.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2366854698_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.domain.com
Registrar URL: www.domain.com
Updated Date: 2019-03-06T22:24:07
Creation Date: 2019-03-06T22:24:07
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-03-06T22:24:07
Registrar: Domain.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 886
Reseller: iPage
Name Server: ns1.ipage.com
Name Server: ns2.ipage.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: @domain-inc.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6027165396
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/Last update of WHOIS database: 2019-03-06T22:24:07 <<<
“For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp”
Registration Service Provider:
iPage, @ipage-inc.com
+1.8774724399
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
You can take this information to your local police or sheriff and they can contact the registar (domain.com and ipage) and start tracking this guy down. They will also shut-down his domain so nobody else gets spoofed.
Seller_myoB69lOiJNbe
Most usually, legit emails from Amazon has this logo. I almost got trapped from one of those phishing emails, too, but fortunately, I realized that it might be a scam before I clicked the links that was provided in that email. So I contacted seller support and they made it perfectly clear to me that it was some form of phishing these scammers do.
Seller_myoB69lOiJNbe
Most usually, legit emails from Amazon has this logo. I almost got trapped from one of those phishing emails, too, but fortunately, I realized that it might be a scam before I clicked the links that was provided in that email. So I contacted seller support and they made it perfectly clear to me that it was some form of phishing these scammers do.
