Amazon highlights common tricks targeting shoppers and breaks down straightforward actions anyone can use to avoid being fooled. Amazon warned over 300 million users about rising impersonation scams ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, June 21, 2025: This story, originally published on ...

Republished on July 25 with a new FTC warning over this latest attack. A new warning has just been issued for millions of Amazon users, as a new wave of attacks on accounts has suddenly surged 5000%.

Scammers are smart. They know how to play the odds. Imagine a paper with a random list of consumer names hung up on a dart board. Throw a dart. If you hit the board, odds are pretty good that you’ll ...