Got an email from Amazon, “Your account is eligible for monthly rewards”. It’s been sitting in my inbox for a few days and finally decided to clear things out. I have an Amazon Associates account, so I’m always getting emails from them about gift certificates and awards and associate payment structures, not to mention links suggested books and other products, so I didn’t think much about it. Clicked on the link to sign in. The site took a few seconds to load, and it was that extra little bit of time that allowed my head to clear.
I went back to the email and sure enough it was a scam going to some other site. I can usually spot these things a mile away, and I’ve told my wife 100 times to never click a sign in link in an email. Just manually go to the page and sign in. But wow, they actually almost caught me off guard. I guess if they are sending out a few million of these things a day, they are bound to get some bites, and not just from computer illiterate grandmas, but even from someone like me who knows the game but just lets their guard down for the space of a single mouse click.