My wife wanted me to order something, so I did the Google search and ended up buying it on Amazon. A few days before the Amazon item was to be delivered, my wife calls all freaked out because she gets an email from “ebay” saying the item has been delivered, but it’s not here. She’s concerned about lack of item, but, of course, I’m concerned about why she is getting an email. My wife doesn’t even consider that she does not even have an account on ebay and obviously never ordered anything.
Am I correct in assuming this would have nothing to do with anything I did?
Having gotten that out of the way, then, I’d have to assume she did a search, too, and someone bought her search history and email address to use it to phish. Does that seem like a reasonable possibility? I see no reason for anyone to go after her in particular, so I’d think this would just be random phishing, which seems weird because of the unlikelihood of a big payout.
Or is there some other possibility I"m not thinking about?
With her being all hyper about the delivery and having bought into the email, I suspect the likelihood is fairly high that she clicked on something - most likely from within gmail on an Android phone. So how likely is it that I have things to worry about inside my network now? What should I be doing now?