I was looking through my Gmail spam folder this morning (too much time on my hands, I guess) and one message caught my eye — supposedly sent by “Fulfillment by Amazon” offering a $10 Amazon gift certificate in exchange for completing a survey.
I opened the message (click on the picture for a larger view) and saw that Google had inserted a red-colored warning about the message being a probable phishing attack. I didn’t visit the link in the message, but I did visit the company Web site, Question Pro Survey. The survey company appears to be legitimate, but I’m not sure what kind of safeguards it has in place — could any phisher pose as Amazon, or another well-known company?
McAfee Site Advisor says the site is safe. According to this thread on Amazon’s official message board, FBA does indeed send a quarterly survey to Marketplace sellers.
OK, just about the time I’m finally convinced that this survey is legit, I see something that looks pretty fishy in the last line of the e-mail, which gives the origin of the survey:
Amazon EU Sarl | Rue Plaetis 5 | | | | | | | L-2338 | Luxembourg
Amazon EU, from Luxembourg? I don’t get it. And can’t Amazon use a survey company that is white-listed by Google, and not routinely marked as spam?
Anyway, I’ve sent the text of the message, along with the header information, to Amazon’s Stop Spoofing page, and will post an update if I learn anything new.
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Another Amazon seller survey spam alert?
I opened the message (click on the picture for a larger view) and saw that Google had inserted a red-colored warning about the message being a probable phishing attack. I didn’t visit the link in the message, but I did visit the company Web site, Question Pro Survey. The survey company appears to be legitimate, but I’m not sure what kind of safeguards it has in place — could any phisher pose as Amazon, or another well-known company?
McAfee Site Advisor says the site is safe. According to this thread on Amazon’s official message board, FBA does indeed send a quarterly survey to Marketplace sellers.
OK, just about the time I’m finally convinced that this survey is legit, I see something that looks pretty fishy in the last line of the e-mail, which gives the origin of the survey:
Amazon EU Sarl | Rue Plaetis 5 | | | | | | | L-2338 | Luxembourg
Amazon EU, from Luxembourg? I don’t get it. And can’t Amazon use a survey company that is white-listed by Google, and not routinely marked as spam?
Anyway, I’ve sent the text of the message, along with the header information, to Amazon’s Stop Spoofing page, and will post an update if I learn anything new.
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