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Overnight I had four order emails from Amazon and one from a software company registering a new user. All emails are to a similar email address to mine (a gmail address with my name, but without a dot separating my two names). The Amazon emails have TLS encryption and appear to be genuine. There's no suspect activity in my Amazon or bank account. Should I be concerned?
Only if you logged in after following links from the emails.
Personally I'd change the Amazon password to be sure.
If really worried why not do the back as well.
I’d say they’re probably genuine but some has made a cockup with their gmail address.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en
Gmail ignores punctuation in email addresses. So trailer.rider.jim@ is the same as trailriderjim@ to gmail. I have a similar issue with some bloke in Derbyshire who thinks his gmail is the same as mine but without the dot in it, so I got his email confirmations for all the fishing gear he used to buy on eBay. I tried writing to him (good old fashioned letter!), but that didn’t work. Also tried raising it with eBay and Amazon but they didn’t care. In the end I reset his passwords, easy when you have the email account, and closed his accounts on both. That seemed to do the trick. I also set up a redirect on Gmail for the format of address he used that informs the sender the email address does not belong to the person they think it does and that it’s deleted unread.
Thanks all. I've set up two-step verification on Amazon. Amazing that Gmail ignores punctuation in email addresses.
^ this is the reason I get some bloke from America's American Express card balance notifications all the time...I've told them, they've nto done anythign, and I can't tell him cos I don't know what his [i]actual [/i]address is!
Also, some girl called Mary (but with my surname) really isn't going to get very far with her college applications if she can't even type her own email address in correctly...
I’d say they’re probably genuine but some has made a cockup with their gmail address.
Wrong - they're spam/phishing/junk/infected.
Select them all, then hit the "Spam" button in Gmail.
I got a whole load to my gmail and my Amazon account is with a completely different address.
Anything that looks vaguely like that can be ditched without opening.
Wrong - they're spam/phishing/junk/infected.
yip, don't open them. delete, there's pretty convincing paypal ones I get regularly too.
Nah open them..
Tell us what happens 🙄
DezB - Member
Wrong - they're spam/phishing/junk/infected.Select them all, then hit the "Spam" button in Gmail.
[b]I got a whole load to my gmail and my Amazon account is with a completely different address.[/b]
Anything that looks vaguely like that can be ditched without opening.
Did you actually read what I, and the OP wrote?
All emails are to a similar email address to mine (a gmail address with my name, but without a dot separating my two names).
This is how Gmail works. And I know exactly what a phishing email looks like too, and I'll put money on these aren't. They're just a cockup.
amedias - Member
^ this is the reason I get some bloke from America's American Express card balance notifications all the time...I've told them, they've nto done anythign, and I can't tell him cos I don't know what his actual address is!
But you can reset his password as you have his email account... then you can access it to get his address, and close the account...
That said, this would be very naughty under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, so I'm in no way advocating you do it.
And I know exactly what a phishing email looks like too, and I'll put money on these aren't
OK, coincidence that I got a load of Amazon emails the same day and have never seen them before!
[i]o a similar email address to mine (a gmail address with my name, but without a dot separating my two names)[/i]
Also how spambots work.
But you can reset his password as you have his email account... then you can access it to get his address, and close the account...
Can't help but wonder how the account was created in the first place. "Please click the link in the verification email to validate your address." Oh.
^ my guess is it was setup after the account was created as it's ONLY balance notifications I get, no other communications, so probably just typed it in wrong when setting up an alert...
I get numerous other sign up notifications asking me to validate this n that for the same numpty ( I know it's him as name always the same and his initials are the same as mine) latest one was a new Netflix account... Needless to say I was a good boy and didn't verify it.