{"id":19429,"date":"2025-07-13T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/scamazon-how-fake-emails-are-targeting-prime-subscribers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T07:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:37:24","slug":"scamazon-how-fake-emails-are-targeting-prime-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/scamazon-how-fake-emails-are-targeting-prime-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scamazon\u2019 \u2013 how fake emails are targeting Prime subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surge in messages from fraudsters about automatic renewal at a higher price has prompted Amazon to email 200m users to warn them<\/p>\n<p>As a frequent Amazon shopper you pay \u00a395 for an annual Prime subscription, so when an email arrives warning the price is going up you are quick to react.<\/p>\n<p>But the email, which includes a button to click on to \u201ccancel\u201d the subscription, is a scam and sent by fraudsters trying to steal your account login and payment details.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/jul\/13\/amazon-prime-scam-fake-emails-warning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e0b6aa5e805181051cb421c2994511bb1fd15a25\/243_0_3663_2930\/master\/3663.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0e1b7ae6854958360ffbd10f5a223b77\" title=\"\u2018Scamazon\u2019 \u2013 how fake emails are targeting Prime subscribers\" \/>A surge in messages from fraudsters about automatic renewal at a higher price has prompted Amazon to email 200m users to warn them<br \/>\nAs a frequent Amazon shopper you pay \u00a395 for an annual Prime subscription, so when an email arrives warning the price is going up you are quick to react.<br \/>\nBut the email, which includes a button to click on to \u201ccancel\u201d the subscription, is a scam and sent by fraudsters trying to steal your account login and payment details. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surge in messages from fraudsters about automatic renewal at a higher price has prompted Amazon to email 200m users to warn them As a frequent Amazon shopper you pay \u00a395 for an annual Prime subscription, so when an email arrives warning the price is going up you are quick to react. But the email, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/scamazon-how-fake-emails-are-targeting-prime-subscribers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Scamazon\u2019 \u2013 how fake emails are targeting Prime subscribers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}