Amazon Prime Day Sale 2025: Cybercriminals target shoppers with 1,000 plus fraud sites, here’s how you can protect yourself

Thanks to Amazon Prime Day 2025, eager shoppers are busy adding items to their wish lists. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are preparing as well. In June alone, more than 1,000 newly registered domains mimicking Amazon’s name surfaced online. Shockingly, 87% of these sites have already been classified as either dangerous or potentially harmful. A significant number of these fraudulent URLs contain the phrase “Amazon Prime,” with approximately one in every 81 flagged domains using the term.