I'm on the mailing list so I get emails from Muzzle-Loaders.com from time to time. I had an email come in that claimed to be from them saying I needed to pay an additional $6.79 in shipping on my order. Just click on the link. (yeah right)
Two big red flags. The actual email address wasn't @muzzle-loaders.com or anything in that name domain.
I hadn't recently ordered anything from them that could require additional shipping.
It appeared to me that someone had acquired a list of their customers email addresses and was using them to trick their customers who had pending orders to give up credit card info. Shortly after I received this message from muzzle-loaders.com email address.
Yes, I am paranoid, but the real question is am I paranoid enough?*Alert* Email Notice
Dear Muzzle-Loaders Customer,
We are reaching out in regards to a recent event with our shipping partner ShipStation regarding additional shipping fee charges. We are aware of the issue and wanted to alert our customers to this event.
We implore that you DO NOT click any of the links sent to you regarding additional postage fees, as they are not from us. Please disregard the emails requesting extra shipping fees originating from "tracking@shipstation.com".
Muzzle-Loaders.com will never reach out via email regarding extra shipping fees, as shipping costs are all handled at the time of checkout.
We are actively monitoring the situation, and working on resolving the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience associated with this event, and will continue to update our customers accordingly.
Thank you again for your support and we hope you have a blessed day!
Hopefully this may help any other targets of this scam avoid having their credit card information stolen.