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Is this Amazon email real?

Paste the sender’s address. We check it against what Amazon publishes about its own email, and flag look-alike domains and free mailboxes pretending to be Amazon.

Sends from

@amazon.com

Never asks

Amazon says it will never ask you to buy a gift card, never asks for payment by phone or email, and never asks you to install software or give remote access to your device.

Report it

Amazon customers: use Amazon’s Report a Scam page. Not a customer: email reportascam@amazon.com.

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From Amazon’s own help pages · checked October 2026

What Amazon says about its email

Amazon

amazon.com · amazon.co.uk · amazon.de · +19

Sends from

@amazon.com Amazon says approved Amazon emails are sent from an amazon.com email address

How to check

Genuine messages also appear in Message Center in your Amazon account. Amazon says that if an email isn’t there, Amazon didn’t send it.
Common email providers show the Amazon smile logo next to emails that really come from Amazon.

Never asks

Amazon says it will never ask you to buy a gift card, never asks for payment by phone or email, and never asks you to install software or give remote access to your device.

Report it

Amazon customers: use Amazon’s Report a Scam page. Not a customer: email reportascam@amazon.com.

Sources: Amazon Customer Service: How to identify fake emails · About Amazon: How to avoid Amazon scams

Got the whole email? An address can be faked. Paste its headers to see whether it really came from Amazon’s domain.

Questions

What email address does Amazon use?

Amazon documents these: @amazon.com (Amazon says approved Amazon emails are sent from an amazon.com email address).

Is an email from a Amazon address always real?

No. The From address can be forged. Whether a message really came from Amazon’s domain is shown by the DMARC result in its headers — paste them into our Email Header Analyzer to check.

What will Amazon never ask for in an email?

Amazon says it will never ask you to buy a gift card, never asks for payment by phone or email, and never asks you to install software or give remote access to your device.

How do I report a fake Amazon email?

Amazon customers: use Amazon’s Report a Scam page. Not a customer: email reportascam@amazon.com.

How do I check an email from Amazon safely?

Genuine messages also appear in Message Center in your Amazon account. Amazon says that if an email isn’t there, Amazon didn’t send it. Common email providers show the Amazon smile logo next to emails that really come from Amazon.

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