Costco email scam making the rounds

A new scam is making the rounds via email, this one claiming to be Costco. As always, Majorgeeks recommends never clicking an email link but rather if you suspect it is real, log on to your account, in this case Costco, to see if there is a real problem. Since this email does not come from Costco, you can rest assured deleting it and\or marking it as spam and forgetting it is the simple solution here.




The scam here is that only part of the money will be returned if you don’t reply quickly. It attempts to scam you by making it seem urgent in the hopes that this urgency will cause you to have a momentary lapse in your common sense.

The email reads something like this:

"Scheduled Home Delivery

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Costco Shipping Manager wrote:

Unfortunately the delivery of your order COS-0016079690 was cancelled since the specified address of the recipient was not correct. You are recommended to complete this form and send it back with your reply to us.

Please do this within the period of one week - if we dont get your timely reply you will be paid your money back less 21% since your order was booked for Christmas"

Never click links in email.