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Anthony Spadafora

Over 200 million Amazon Prime customers warned about scammers trying to steal their accounts — how to stay safe

Amazon on phone next to Prime box .

Prime Day may be over but you’re going to want to pay close attention to any emails claiming to come from Amazon as there has been a surge in scammers impersonating the company in recent weeks.

According to a new blog post from Malwarebytes, the company sent out an alert to its 200 million customers warning them of an ongoing Prime membership scam. The timing of these phishing attacks makes a lot of sense too as customers would likely be concerned about losing access to their memberships ahead of one of the biggest sales events of the year.

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