Tuesday, December 13, 2022 – How can I tell if an Amazon gift card email is legit? – How to disable the Smart Compose feature in Gmail

Q&A: How can I tell if an Amazon gift card email is legit?

Question from David:  I received an email that appears to have been sent by Amazon. It says that I’ve received a $100 gift card from Chase Bank for applying for a credit card.

The thing is, I did apply for a credit card from Chase but I was denied, and I don’t remember seeing anything on the application about an Amazon gift card.

The email has a link I can click to (supposedly) redeem the gift card and apply the balance to my Amazon gift card account.

Like I said, I did apply for a credit card with Chase but that’s been almost a year ago.

How can I find out if this email is legit? I know a lot of these emails are scams.

Rick’s answer:  First of all, David, don’t click that link (or any other link in the email).

If the email is legitimate it will include a Claim Code that you can copy to your device’s Clipboard.

If the email doesn’t have a Claim Code, you’ll know right away that the email is a fake that was sent by a scammer, not Amazon.

If the email in question has a Claim Code, simply copy the code to the Clipboard, then log into your Amazon account and click the Gift Cards link.

Once you’re on the Gift Cards page, click Redeem an Amazon Gift Card and paste the Claim Code from the email into the “Enter Claim Code” field.

If you really did receive an actual gift card, Amazon will automatically add $100 to your Gift Card Balance.

If the Claim Code doesn’t work, that means both the Claim Code and the email are fake (assuming you entered the code correctly, with no typos).

I hope this helps, David. Good luck.

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