Email notifications from Amazon are so badly written these days that I find I ignore genuine emails! The advice generally given by Amazon - and everywhere else too - is to check the email for grammatical or typographical errors, to ensure that an email from Amazon is not a phishing attempt.
It would help if the genuine emails had a rigid template to assist agents who speak English as a second language.
Whilst their English is far better than any second language that I may attempt to communicate in; I find that I miss genuine alerts with things like
Email Title: "Your listing is at risk of deactivated" < I generally wouldn't even open a mail with that subject line. Obvious phishing/scam, right? Not with Amazon!
- or -
Body Text: "The following listings are at the risk of deactivation" < OK, I finally open the email and read this, I stop reading. With this and the title, it's clearly not genuine. Again, except when it's from Amazon
Both from genuine alerts but at first disregarded when reading the email, as I read those the same way as I would most common banking or PayPal phishing attempts
The advice when dealing with Amazon emails would seem to be - if the grammar is good, beware, as most genuine Amazon emails contain the kind of common tense or misplaced article errors associated normally with scams originating overseas.
