Widespread phishing? Has this happened to any of you?

[LAS14]

This weekend I got an e-mail notification from my bank that I had a balance < $100. I've requested such notifications, but when I looked my balance was over $1000. This morning I got an e-mail from the bank saying that it seemed that such a notification had gone out to a number of customers in error.

Here's the question. This morning I also got what was clearly phishing e-mail from TeamMTBus (real e-mail a bunch of numbers). Is it possible that there's a new scam afoot, where people are sent false, but apparently legit, e-mails about a low balance, and then sent a different e-mail a day later telling them their bank account has been suspended, and click "confirm" to clear it up????

[Indykatie]

1. I Get Phising Messages From Amazon About a Problem on My Credit Card

They ask me to update it or add a new card. When you look at the sender's address it's never from Amazon.Com but some variation that includes Amazon as part of the address. I got a similar one from PayPal last week and I don't even use the PayPal account I set up years ago.

[captain queeg]

2. I haven't seen that but a couple times when I've checked my balance it was off

I’d look the next day and it would be ok. Rare, but it has happened. I’ve learned to not respond immediately to anything. The scammers are good at scaring you into taking action. Doesn’t sound like a planned scam to me, but always be cautious.

[MineralMan]

3. I pay no attention to any such emails. If I'm curious,

I log into my bank account and check for myself. There are so many phishing scams out there that I simply never rely on any emails that appear to come from my bank. I check the account daily anyhow as part of my morning online routine.

[ificandream]

4. I'm getting messages like that all the time from various merchants, including Costco but ...

I can tell they're fake from the misspellings.

[kimbutgar]

5. I had an " email" from Amazon saying my order of a $1000 galaxy cell phone has shipped

It looks so phony. I closed my email and checked on another device into my real amazon account. No such order.

Or another one I got was from a bank that I don’t even do banking with saying my account was overdrawn. I mark them as spam.

But the macfee ones are the worst saying my computer is infected and my virus protection expired. I don’t use macfee and I ran a computer scan with the virus protection I have and no virus detected.

[captain queeg]

6. I thought I'd mention some other recent things

Not long ago I clicked on a link that was in an email forwarded to me (by a trusted party). When I clicked it I got dire warnings of a Trojan. The message was supposedly from Microsoft Defender. My computer was locked and it said I had to contact them to clear it. I was suspicious but not sure. I asked my son and he said it sounded like a scam. Then I opened a different browser and that worked fine so it was obviously a scam.

Just this weekend I got a text from an unknown party saying I had a couple prescriptions to “review”. I just don’t open stuff from unknown people but after I thought a bit I texted my son who is away at college but still on my insurance. I’m not always up to date on what he is doing but he recognized the name referenced in the text and said he’d recently been prescribed for but hadn’t picked them up yet. So I did open it and it showed his prescriptions. It was just odd, I get texts from my pharmacy when prescriptions are ready for pick up. But I’d never seen one calling for review.