okay, i was stupid. what did they get, and how do i fix it?

[woo me with science]

i got an email from amazon.com asking me to verify my email address by clicking on a link or cutting and pasting the address(amazon.com something something) into my browser. usually i am good about these things, but i had just done something with amazon and i fell for it. i pasted the link into my browser, and the page looked like amazon thanking me and saying all was okay. then i realized what i'd done. i wrote amazon, and they confirmed that the email was not from them.

my question is this: i went to the link the email provided, but i did not give any password or account details. is my account safe? what did they get from me, exactly?

i have run antivirus, superantispyware, and malwarebytes. i also changed my password and email accounts linked to amazon, just in case. the email account the email came to is my main personal account, though, and i don't want to stop using it.

is there anything else i should be doing to ensure my safety? i don't understand what exactly they got from me here. what were they trying to get?

thanks in advance for any help.

[struggle4progress]

1. If you're lucky, they were just trolling for a live email address. If you're unlucky,

they may have downloaded some malware onto your machine or scanned your machine looking for some info, such as other email addresses. If it's new malware, there may be a lag time until it shows up in any database

In short, I don't think there's any easy way to know. Have you tried googling the some of the email text or searching cyberspace for posts about the site you visited?

[woo me with science]

2. Good advice, thanks.

Everything I found so far says they lead to a site asking for passwords and usernames. The site I visited didn't do that, so I will keep alert for malware.

I got another spoofed message today, though, so I'm thinking the first may just have been an initial phishing expedition to see if I'm gullible enough to be added to the list of suckers for future targeting.

Thanks again.

[2Design]

3. go into your account and change your password just to make sure

might want to change all your passwords in case they were fishing