VIDEO: "Please verify your Amazon.de customer account"
Why you are asked to verify
Emails asking you to verify your Amazon.de customer account are a popular means of fraudsters to get your personal information.
- These are so-called "phishing" or "spoofing" emails
- Here you will mostly receive an email from a seemingly familiar address such as Amazon.de. You will be confronted with the following request: "Please verify your Amazon.de customer account". The reason for this is that an attempt was made to sell your AmazonAccount unauthorized use.
- To carry out the verification, you should click on a link and then log into your Amazon.de customer account with your username and password.
- During this process, your access data will be intercepted and your Amazon.de customer account is no longer secure.
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Should you have one e-mail do not, under any circumstances, follow the prompt, but proceed as follows.
How to protect your Amazon.de customer account
First check whether such an email is really an email written by Amazon. There are some indicators that you can use to quickly find out whether the attempt is fraudulent. Amazon.de has a special one for this counselor created. You can identify fraudulent e-mails in the following ways:
- You will be asked to provide personal information such as bank details, password, etc. to specify.
- As described above, you should verify your Amazon.de customer account.
- The email contains some kind of attachments and is riddled with typing errors.
- Links are displayed that do not officially belong to Amazon.de. You can find a list of trusted links in the guide linked above.
If any of these apply, you can confidently delete the email.
