I received an email today from “Amazon”. I have no idea if its legit or not. I didn’t click on any of the links in the email (I will explain later) and I am finding nothing on this screen. I also haven’t uploaded any photos in the last 24 hours.
I reviewed my more recent listings and everything look good. I have had a few phishing attempts on my person and business email. I did not fall for them. Over the weekend I received 2 OTP texts to my cell phone (from amazon), it was not me.
I also received an email that someone was trying to sign in to my business email with an Apple (we are an android family) and I hit decline.
Is there a setting somewhere within Amazon that shows the log in attempts and where they came from?
I also want to be sure I am protecting myself. I have two step verifications set up for everything and I never click on links in an email. I always go there alternate ways.
Nope unfortunately. That would be killer but Amazon doesn’t play like that.
If the links go to sellercentral.amazon.com then the email should be legit. Amazon is well known for firing out incorrect emails like this though when it has no application to your account.
They you are WELL protected. Anyone can try to log in from anywhere and they will always need your 2 factor code, so that’s great.
The “Image Issues Report” is supposed to be available from the “Submission status” ‘tab’ of the Image Manager Dashboard (link), found @ this ‘direct/simplified’ URL here (link ‘broken’ for Discourse display):
Most likely legit. Pay no attention to the sledge hammer, one size fits all, “the image you recently uploaded” BS verbiage.
All this means is a new bot was deployed that caught something from who knows when (10 years ago). When we get these, it takes a day or 2 for the actual image to register with the link / workflow. We don’t have too many listings so it was easy to find where the missing image was by looking at each of them. Sure enough, there was a image yanked even though the link showed nothing at the time of the email.
I’m getting OTP texts all the time now too. It’s hard to know which account it’s coming from since I use the same phone # for both.
Changed the passwords on both to ultra-complex, very long passwords that would be impossible to figure out in 1000 years. Still getting them.
Probably some sort of glitch. Thanks Amazon for your amazing systems. Nothing like a security glitch.
I’m a firm advocate of using complex passwords myself; for much of this current century I’ve used Gibson Research Corporation’s “Haystack Analyzer” tool here to gauge ‘strength’:
Question on this… Are you getting these texts when you first go into your seller App? It just happened again to me and right after I opened the App (not signing in, just viewing). Now that I think about it, it seems like I always seem to get these texts right after I open the App… Glitch? IDK
