# A new spam variation, Amazon Order Confirm?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 30, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-spam-variation-amazon-order-confirm/659720 "2013-05-30T16:16:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-spam-variation-amazon-order-confirm/659720/21 "2013-05-31T12:32:49Z")

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> [@AaronX](#):
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> That’s what I meant about the URL, I always thought URLs that made sense were more “valuable”.

If you mean URLs that exist, and lead to the spammer’s site rather than a fake one that doesn’t, I’m sure that’s true.

But the Russian one I gave apparently does go somewhere, as the person who clicked on it reported a real web page, not a 404 page, although I’m not sure she knows the difference. It was scary enough to make her pause.

Since I only have two examples, and they both have legitimately-constructed URLs, I can’t tell if thousands of sites were set up for this or not, but there are at least two.

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