Prime Membership Scam: Amazon Alerts Users to Fake Renewal Emails
Amazon is currently warning 200 million Prime members of a new fraud. Fraudsters send fake emails to alleged automatic extensions of prime membership-but at higher prices. We explain how to recognize the fraud.
Fake emails in circulation
The stitch is refined because the emails say that membership for Amazon Prime will automatically extend itself shortly, but an unexpectedly high price is mentioned. Prime currently costs 8.99 euros per month or 89.90 euros annually for deustche, and there are also the discounts for students or for users who are released from the radio fee. The fraudsters now indicate significantly higher amounts in their emails and add an alleged “terminate” button, which then leads to a fake Amazon login page.
Protection against fraud stitches
The fraudsters use personal information from other sources to make their news more credible. According to the Security researchers from Malwarebytes If the “cancel” button leads to a page on which the access data is tapped, so that fraudsters are given access to the Amazon account and then buy with the deposited payment data. Experts strongly advise you to click on links in suspicious emails. Instead, the status of Prime membership should be checked directly via the Amazon app or website. The activation of the two-factor authentication and regular controls of credit card statements and account movements are recommended as additional security measures.
With Amazon itself, all important information about the account can be checked under “My Account” – only legitimate Amazon messages appear there. Suspicious emails can be reported via Amazon.de/Reportacam. In principle, Amazon never calls on an email to enter passwords or credit card details directly. In the account overview you can check orders and the next subscription payments
Attempts to fraud increase dramatically
The prime mesh is not the only one that aims at Amazon customers. According to the US trade commission FTC, consumers lost $ 12.5 billion (10.7 billion euros) in 2024 alone in 2024-an increase of 25 percent in the previous year. There are no reliable figures from Germany. Other fraud stitches include Amazon voucher fraud, in which fraudsters pretend to be authorities or family members, as well as fake vacancies that have increased by 90 percent between January and March 2025. These false jobs lure with attractive positions and then request personal data or advance payments.
Amazon’s large user base makes the service an attractive goal for cybercriminals. Malwarebytes discovered phishing sites with domains such as “Amazons.digital”, which are now blocked. Some fraudsters use real Amazon logos and designs for authentic fake pages, which makes recognition more and more difficult for potential victims. Security experts recommend basic skepticism for unusual offers or messages and advise you to directly call up the official Amazon website instead of following links.
