I got a stupid question about possible phishing?

I just got an email telling me I bought an app to improve my "golf swing" from Apple.

I am a Moto X4 guy, I don't have any apple phones or computer or any of that stuff.

But they sent me an email telling me I made a purchase. They sent it to my personal account. So family and close friends use it. It is not the sort of email I would use to sign up on forums or things like that. It hasn't been leaked all over the internet.

Also, the receipt does not say how I paid, so I can't tell if it is one of my CC or PayPal accounts or anything like that.

What do you think? Are they just testing to see if the email is valid? Or maybe someone just transposed a letter when they filled out the email portion of a form.

Anyway, is it likely just a black hatter testing emails?

I am a little weird about this sort of thing because someone broke into my Amazon account and added 2 AmEx cards. They tried to use the AmEx cards to buy PrePaid Amazon cards. They did not use my CC to try and buy anything, they just added some AmEx cards to do it. (since I never buy prepaid cards Amazon blocked the transaction)

BTW - when I told Amazon they could not have cared less that someone added cards to my account. They did not even delete them, I had to do it.
Maybe because it was only a 50 dollar prepaid card or something. But they did not do anything at all. apparently fraud is not an issue, as long as they don't lose money

I changed my passwords to Amazon and the email account I login with and that seems to have fixed it.

someone have your details. It's called "fullz", carders use these to balance out someone's card with real details.

Thanks for responding.

You know from my post that when i reported this to Amazon they didn't give a crap. But I forgot to mention that when I went to AmEx to ask them what to do, they would not even speak to me unless I am a card holder.

Of course I am not a cardholder, so I had no way to give them the few digits from the cards Amazon allowed me to see, or their expiration dates.

If I were a thief, I would just try to keep my transactions under 50 bucks and nobody gives a shit. Even the people your ripping off don't care.
I am far too afraid to do this sort of thing but many people are not.

Amazing, even reporting crimes in America will not result in action.

(I even sent screen shots and an explanation to the State of Oregon. I think it was the Consume Business fraud burea or something like that. They did not even call me back) (I'm trained as a paralegal, although I don' work in that field, and I wanted a paper trail showing I tried to resolve the mess and that I did not steal any cards, in case someone got excited about it later)

Anyways, they had screen shots and a witness who would testify and nobody cared.

God Bless America

(of course tracking this down would cost far more money than would be recovered but it just seems weird)

schleprock said:

(I even sent screen shots and an explanation to the State of Oregon. I think it was the Consume Business fraud burea or something like that. They did not even call me back)

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With the sole exception of taxes, getting a reaction out of any government agency will take 4-12 weeks, certainly not one business day.

The most likely scenario is that someone made a typo on their email. There's at least three people who regularly make similar typos and have information sent to my email address (including one guy whose wife is in the UK parliament), I just inform the sender and move on.