I got 3 versions of this today. The most amusing part is that the shipping address is a mail merge field with my email address inserted. I’m sure that will produce some funny results for people with more creative email addresses. I don’t see any posts about what the links do and don’t intend to find out.
Senders:
Charlene Marshall (fountibf0@eurobiobiz.com)
Octavio Sykes (retrainscew@regallager.com)
Salvador Nance (jurypx@clickz.com)
Subjects:
Fwd: Order Shipped Now
Re: HD TV Waiting on delivery Now
Your HDTV Shipped Now
The text varies slightly, showing different amounts and delivery addresses. The links point to sefertora.net/account/hdtvamazon.htm and shuraki.com/wp-admin/hdtvamazon.html
Sample Text:
Shipping Confirmation
Order #002-7563549-80223342
Greetings robert@rlweiner.com,
Thank you for shopping with us. We have to inform yo that amazon shipped your item, and that this completes your order.. If you need to return an good from this shipment or manage other orders, please visit Your Orders on Amazon.com.
Your estimated shipment date is:
Friday, September 21, 2012
Why tracking information may be unavailable?
Your order was shipped to:
robert
263 Athens Dr , App. 5B
Albuquerque, CA
United States
This shipment have no an associated delivery number of tracking.
Order
Sharp E406, SV 46-Inch 1080p 1000 Hz Cinema 3D LED HDTV with 3D Blu-ray Player and Three Pairs of 3D Glasses
Sold by trenter
Condition: used – acceptable $590.35
Item Subtotal: $590.35
Shipping & Handling: $25.97
Total Before Tax: $590.35
Shipment Total: $590.35
Paid by Discover: $590.35
Returns are easy. Visit our ON-line Return Center.
If you need any assistance with your order, please visit Merchant Contact Form.
We hope to see you again soon!
Amazon.com
Unless otherwise noted, items are sold by Amazon LLC. Learn more about tax and seller information.
This email was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming email. Please don’t reply to this message.
Here’s a screenshot:
6 more versions arrived while I was composing this post. The senders were:
Enrique Lindsay (voodoof30@spcollege.edu)
Dallas Horn (argonne0@cascade.oostrozebeke.com)
Susan Cooper (triggerq4@luther.k12.wi.us)
Myron Brandon (finickyt1@bmacapital.com)
Duane Toney (tambourinef@hendrickauto.com)
Diego Blount (wanglingu277@williamsguitarcompany.com)
The subjects were:
Fwd: Item Delivered Yesterday
Fwd: HD TV Delivered Now
Fwd: Ordered Item Waiting on delivery Few hours ago
Fwd: Ordered Item In Progress Yesterday
Fwd: Item Waiting on delivery Yesterday
Fwd: Ordered Item Approved Few hours ago
I got one of these too “Fwd: Ordered Item In Progress Today”. Pretty convincing. Thanks for posting this. It confirmed my suspicion. None of my cards appear to have actually been charged.
Thank you for your post. I received two of similar today.
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:13:36 +0100
From: “Lyle@anbid.com.br”
Subject: Fwd: Ordered Item Waiting on delivery Few hours ago
and
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:13:22 +0100
From: “Cornell Talbot”
Subject: Re: HD TV Shipped Yesterday
Not like I have anything else to do but check if an email is spam or not …
Thanks again.
Received a nearly identical email today as well. From: Dominick Harvey curtis@williamsguitarcompany.com
I got the same email delivered to my work email address. It was from a Blaine Lovett, characteristic18@Isinternet.net. The order was to be delivered to S Paolo, FL, to an apartment. As far as I can find S Paolo doesn’t exist in FL.
Received one today from a “Quentin Miranda”
I just got 2 of these. I reported it to Amazon, including the email and the “show original.” Senders are
Stacy Laird decade82@iicbelgium.com
Taylor Corona gulpspqx779@canaca.com via gmail.com
Mine, sent to my work email, is from Lavonne Blevins, indicating my 46″ HDTV & four pairs of glasses were shipped on Friday to Albuquerque, KY.
I just got one this morning. HD tv delivered. And it is used! from Edmond Sears. nothing charged on cards, nothing in my amazon account.
Just received one this morning. HD TV Approved Yesterday. TV sent to TX. Nothing charged to my account.
I don’t think anyone’s getting charged for these. They’re trying to get you to click the links. According to this article, they attempt to infect your computer with malware: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-Amazin-HD-TV-Purchase-Emails-Lead-to-Trojan-294021.shtml
Ugh I am getting between 20 and 50 of these per day and they all seem to get past my spam filter in Outlook.
Mark,
I use the Spambayes Outlook plugin, and after telling it that the first few of these were spam it’s been catching them (it’s put 14 in in my spam folder in the last hour). See http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
add to the list
Felix Chambers. Do not even download the pictures or click any links.
I got a new batch yesterday. They look convincing until you hover over the links. They claim that I bought the following:
The photos of the watches are all identical, but don’t click the pictures — that takes you to the same hacked sites as clicking on the links.
Shipped from:
auto-confirm@news.amazon.net (wadssiv304@news.amazon.net)
Samsung UN55T34020 55-Inch 1080p 400Hz LED Slim 3D HDTV (Black)
Electronics
In Stock
Sold by Adorama
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$1,050.13
Unfortunately, I bought into the scam in the sense that I cancelled my VISA and reported it. While researching the address I discovered that the hyperlinks on various items in the email link to a website with likely viruses.
I got a fresh batch of fake invoices from “Amazon” today. Each of them says I bought 2 HDTVs and a camera for $2063.96. But these guys aren’t even trying — they don’t look remotely like genuine Amazon receipts. Plus the last line says “This is not a VAT invoice.” We don’t have VAT here in the U.S.