Just a heads up to Amazon customers: The popular online retailer is NOT, we repeat NOT conducting regular fraud checks with their customers.

A number of Amazon customers are reporting that they’ve gotten very official looking e-mail from “Amazonfraudchecks” inquiring about their account information and stating that apparently fraudulent purchases may have been made.

The customers are then directed to what looks like Amazon’s log-in so they can check out account activity and information.

But it’s not a legit Amazon site and logging in gives scammers the keys to get into your account.

Nice, eh?

Never navigate to a commercial site via the link in an e-mail. And if anyone contacts you about your account this way, be very very suspicious.

Tags: Amazon, check, e-mail, fraud