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Key findings for Amazon

• Impersonation pressure is Critical (81/100): Amazon has more reported hosts than 98% of the 579 brands we track.
• That is 19× the average for retail, delivery & marketplaces (69 hosts per brand).
• 767 hosts (57%) hide the Amazon name in a subdomain of an unrelated site, the trick that makes a link look official at a glance.
• The most common ending is .top (337 hosts, 25%).
• 29% of hosts pair the brand with a bait word. The most common is “update” (106 hosts).
• 80 lookalike domains were registered in the last 15 days, 15 of them in the three most recent days of data.
• 5 of the new domains are typo or look-alike-character copies, which are the hardest for people to spot.

How attackers fake Amazon

These breakdowns cover all 1,343 matching hostnames, not only the rows listed below.

Hosts reported in phishing feeds

The most widely reported hostnames that reference Amazon, ranked by how many feeds list them and then by reported URLs. Search, filter and export all 100 rows.

New lookalike domains registered recently

Domains registered in the last 15 days that contain Amazon's name, sit one character away from it or use look-alike characters. Attackers often register these days before sending the first email.

How Amazon phishing works

Phishing against Amazon follows patterns common to retail, delivery & marketplaces. Typical lures:

• Amazon phishing leans on "order confirmation", "payment declined" and fake support numbers for charges you never made.
• An "order confirmation" or "payment declined" email for something you did not order.
• A refund, reward or survey offer that asks for your card details.
• A fake seller or buyer message that moves the chat off-platform to a payment link.
• A text about a gift card, delivery problem or account lock with a short link.

Red flags

• The order or amount does not match anything you did, and the email pushes you to call or click.
• Prices or rewards are too good to be true, and the checkout page is on a different domain.
• You are asked to pay by gift card, wire or a link sent in chat.

Real Amazon domains

If the address in your browser is not one of these (or a subdomain of them), it is not Amazon. The list is not exhaustive.

If you already clicked or entered details

Contact your card issuer to cancel the card and dispute any charge, change the account password, and review saved addresses and payment methods. Use the retailer's official app or site to check any order.

Protecting a brand like Amazon from lookalike domains

If you run security, brand or fraud for a company that is copied this way, this is the order that works in practice:

1. Enforce DMARC. Move your policy to quarantine, then reject, so attackers cannot send mail that passes as your domain.
2. Watch new registrations. Lookalikes appear daily; the earlier you see one, the sooner you can act, ideally before the first email goes out.
3. Register the obvious typos and keyword variants you can afford to hold, and check which lookalikes are already registered by someone else.
4. Report fast. A live fake needs a request to the registrar and host, plus a report to browser safe-browsing lists and the public feeds shown above.
5. Tell your customers where you will and will not ask for logins, codes or payments.

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