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You may have done business with Amazon-dot-COM in the past and if you have, this is something you'll need to beware and scrutinize. An e-mail was received stating that my Amazon order had been shipped.  Everything about the e-mail looks legit except for the fact that I didn't order anything recently.  This quickly let to closer examination of the e-mail and found the links were NOT pointing to Amazon's website.

The header information of this particular e-mail showed that it originated from Russia (net218.186.188-49.dynamic.omsk.ertelecom.ru/188.186.218.49), this may not be the only source of the spoofed email and in fact, one of the routes that the e-mail went through Amazon's own servers.

Always scrutinize e-mails that you've received from businesses, especially e-mail from businesses you seldom have contact, if any at all.