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Amazon's shopping AI will now tell you if that Amazon message is a scam

TechCrunch· 2 Sep

About 360,000 customers a year ask Amazon whether a message claiming to be from Amazon is real. Alexa for Shopping can now check a message against the ones Amazon actually sent. A pattern worth copying: the company that sends the messages verifies them. Your customers get fake invoices in your name too.

  • Put one sentence on your invoices and email footer: how you will and will never ask for payment changes.
  • Tell customers where to check a message they doubt: a phone number, not a reply.

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