I get a lot of these "free Amazon gift card" spams, too. The one that Mr. Consumer got is one of the better constructed ones--they range from very authentic looking to terrible. The most common fake email I get is "we've found it necessary to shut down your [fill-in-the-blank] account, until you verify your credentials." Besides the detective advice that he and JonK (above) offered, there are other ways to spot a fake easily. And this applies to not just fake Amazon offers. If there are misspellings, poor English, grammatical errors, punctuation mistakes, and formatting errors, you should be ready to hit the delete key immediately. My wife doesn't call me her grammar Nazi for nothing!