A Phishing page emulates a well known trusted website and tries to capture (phish) your login data for the original website. Most phishing incidences start with mass emailing potential victims. The mail looks like an exact copy of a mail send by the original site with the only difference that a url is provided that is most of the time slightly different from that of the original site.
Once there the site again seems like an exact copy of the original site. They probably offer lots of links that are the same but the login page always does not log you into the original site but collects your user data. Sometimes you receive an error message telling you that your login data was incorrect. At the same time you are redirected to the real homepage and everything will be working as usual.
I knew of bank phishing pages, eBay phishing pages but amazon phishing pages have been new to me. Take a look at this site if you like, do not enter your real data there !
The most obvious reason this site is fake is that its url is http://secure.amazon.com.dec11es.com/ which is not the amazon.com url but one of dec11es.com.
Second the amazon login page is always a site secured with ssl, it could look like this https://www.amazon.com/..
And thirdly the complete second line (the blue one) is empty whereas the orginal amazon one has searches and other stuff located there.
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