Since criminals take no Christmas vacations — Amazon shoppers, beware: You may receive an email telling you a recent order you placed cannot be shipped. A “processing” glitch is blamed — and you’re asked to confirm your personal information, including your credit card information.

Don’t do it — it’s a scam. You may not have even ordered anything from Amazon.

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A link inside the emails takes customers to a webpage that looks real, and asks them to confirm their name, address, and credit card information associated with their account.

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When you click “save” — the fake webpage even takes customers back to Amazon’s real website.

Amazon has posted advice for customers who find suspicious emails in their inbox. Emails that did not really come from Amazon may include these questionable elements:

  • An order confirmation for an item you didn’t purchase or an attachment to an order confirmation.
  • Requests for your Amazon username and/or password, or other personal information.
  • Requests to update your payment information.
  • Links to websites that look like Amazon’s site.
  • Attachments or prompts to install software on your computer.
  • Typos or grammatical errors.
  • If the “from” line of the email is something other than @amazon.com — it’s a fake.