Amazon sent an email that sounded like a gift card scam to warn about gift card scams, confusing customers

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• Amazon customers flooded social media, confused about an email telling them they bought gift cards.
• The email warned the recipients about gift card scams, but the email itself sounded like a scam.
• Social media users said they received the email even though they never bought gift cards.

Amazon apparently sent out emails to hundreds of people thanking them for gift card purchases they never made and telling them to be wary of scams.