Think I ordered a Soldering Station ? how worried should I be..what is Phishing?

[petemoore]

  I can't seem to find out except that it was supposed to be here yesterday.
  I got this message....
  Important Notice: The following order payment methods are not covered for
reimbursement by the Amazon.com A-to-z Guarantee: wire transfer, money orders,
check, cash, or credit card transactions that occur off Amazon.com. Only orders
using Amazon Payments are supported. This is the payment system used when you
use 1-Click or the Shopping Cart to place orders through the Amazon.com Web
site.
  I can't seem to figure out if the machine thinks I didn't order anything, I can't figure out whether they're saying their a-to-z categories are accepted or rejected.
  'Not covered for re-imbursement'...that mean I paid but don't get anything?
  Something that responds to emails like this doesn't understand anything, no email support means no simple answer is possible...
  Then they go on to talk about Phishing, what is Phishing ?
  Here's a copy of the e-mail you sent to Electronix Express. Seller responses
will be sent to you directly via e-mail.

Order ID: 102-7657348-5591346
* 1 of Weller Soldering Station, WLC100, 120V, 40W

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Subject: Order inquiry from Amazon customer petemoore59@hotmail.com

Important Notice: The following order payment methods are not covered for
reimbursement by the Amazon.com A-to-z Guarantee: wire transfer, money orders,
check, cash, or credit card transactions that occur off Amazon.com. Only orders
using Amazon Payments are supported. This is the payment system used when you
use 1-Click or the Shopping Cart to place orders through the Amazon.com Web
site.

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Is there an expected time of delivery for this order:
102-7657348-5591346
Placed on aug. 9 ?

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Please note: This e-mail was sent from a notification-only address that cannot
accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message.

Notice: Amazon.com may retain copies of all forwarded e-mails, and takes no
responsibility and assumes no liability for the content of any messages
forwarded to you. In an effort to prevent the transmission of spurious e-mails,
Amazon.com uses filtering technology. Messages that fail this filtering will not
be transmitted to the seller.

Amazon.com will never e-mail you and ask you to disclose or verify your
Amazon.com password, credit card, or banking account number. If you receive a
suspicious e-mail with a link to update your account information, do not click
on the link--instead report the e-mail to Amazon.com for investigation. Go to
amazon.com/phish to find out more.

[the_random_hero]

From what I can see, all it's saying is if you don't use one of their payment methods, you won't be covered for it. Kind of how Paypal and Ebay works, I guess.

[GREEN FUZ]

Phishing is an unscrupulous method for gathering personal details like credit card numbers, passwords, banking information etc from an individual. It is usually in the guise of a seemingly official looking missive from some company or other, often one known to the victim. There will usually be a request to re-submit one`s personal details for some reason and many people without a second thought give away huge amounts of personal information.

I`m not sure how this relates to the message you received. It looks like an automatic response type, there`s no point responding to it. You need to speak to an individual from the company you ordered from. The good news is, there is an order ID # so you must have ordered something.

[soulsonic]

Phishing is an unscrupulous method for gathering personal details like credit card numbers, passwords, banking information etc from an individual. It is usually in the guise of a seemingly official looking missive from some company or other, often one known to the victim. There will usually be a request to re-submit one`s personal details for some reason and many people without a second thought give away huge amounts of personal information.

Thanks for clearing that up.... this whole time I was thinking it was some kind of illegal CIA torture technique involving terrible hippie jam music.

Seriously though, phishing is awful. I have completely stopped using PayPal because I was so sick of getting those damn phishing emails every day... probably at least two or three a day. The last straw was when I tried to change my primary email address and it asked for my credit card number! That is messed up... it almost seems like the PayPal site itself has been hacked to death. I no longer trust them and I will never use them again for anything. The should set it up so bank transfers are as easy to do as PayPal so that people can make real transactions bank to bank and all important account information can be handled in person by the customer at a local branch with none of this internet BS.

[GibsonGM]

As long as you go to the Paypal site itself (www.paypal.com) to do any account changes, you should be 99% safe.   The Phishing scammers send you an email, and if you follow THEIR link to a page and enter your CC information, that's where you get phished!   (or phushed, or....well, you know...don't know if there's a past tense to that!).    And if you're set up thru your bank account rather than a credit card, why should you ever have to change it? So it's more obvious that someone is trying to phish you if you get an email. 

Always be the 'initiator' of transactions, and you're much safer....   

[GREEN FUZ]

I got caught out recently by an email purporting to come from ebay stating that I`d been promoted to Power- seller status. I was instructed to click on the link to confirm this by filling in my password etc in order to receive the new icon. Giddy with excitement at my new rating I didn`t stop to think that I hadn`t really conducted enough transactions throughout the year to warrant it and duly followed the link, blindly sharing my details with anyone who cared to abuse them.

What a twat.

What made it worse is that it stated clearly in the URL field that I had entered a Phishing site.