topic Re: NEW SCAM ALERT in Community Chat

NEW SCAM ALERT

Mindy D — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:14:42 GMT

I was on my one month free trial of Amazon Prime. Today I received a realistic looking email from Amazon Prime. It's fake. If you get one, call Amazon
They will not send emails with attachments. When it came I went to the real site and checked my amazon accounts and credit cards and everything was fine. I called Amazon by phone. The CSR said the email is fake and the agent asked me to forward the email to an Amazon email that deals with spoofing.

The email was addressed to my name. It's coincidence that it's from Prime and that my free tria is about to expire. There is only one spelling mistake in the email that is visible in my post. The error is the word 'supporterred' at the very top. I didn't see the error until I was speaking to CS. Stay safe.

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Witchy Woman — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:02:46 GMT

@Mindy D

Got the same thing yesterday and just deleted it.

Something like that has come before, and I never, ever, ever open any attachment.

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Dinaki — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:03:18 GMT

I keep receiving similar emails pretending to be from Apple. I report them to Apple.

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Mindy D — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:04:27 GMT

Amazon Security already sent me a letter thanking me for forwarding this to them and the CSR agent sent me a confirmation email about our discussion. Looks like they are taking these seriously.

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Witchy Woman — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:06:47 GMT

@Mindy D

I wanted to forward it, but....just got lazy and didn't want to spend time looking for an email address.

Will do so today.

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bluehost — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:09:41 GMT

These email fraud from "Amazon" are a daily occurrence. Along with others. Just delete.

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Mindy D — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:16:13 GMT

@bluehost wrote:
These email fraud from "Amazon" are a daily occurrence. Along with others. Just delete.

This is different because it is so specific to my situation.

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millieshops — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:17:13 GMT

@DinakiAlso had several Apple emails - arriving in several different forms!

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jpie — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:19:37 GMT

I too got that and had put in for a thermometer that was delivered. My American Express had already cleared the purchase in advance. This way, I knew my purchase had been paid for.

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corita — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:24:01 GMT

@millieshops wrote:
@DinakiAlso had several Apple emails - arriving in several different forms!
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I get calls from 'Apple". I do not answer, there is not a single apple product in this house!!

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grandme — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:08:58 GMT

My husband got one saying someone was trying to purchase a 200.00 gift card. He also got a call about it and said they were investigating. He could not log in to Amazon. He called next day and Amazon rep told him that number that called him fraudulent and no email was sent by them. My husband computer was compromised too. His mouse was moving independently and his PayPal account was hacked and someone authorized payment to Groupon for 384 390 another 384 and over 1000. My husband is very savvy on the computer and even though PayPal called him and he said no not him and they would open fraud investigation he contacted Bank to stop all PayPal transactions. It cost him 37.50 but well worth it. PayPal said fraud investigation showed no fraud. What!!!!! He told them it wasn't him. He has never connected to Groupon for anything. Be very diligent. He has now ended his PayPal which is owned by eBay for those who don't know. Stay well.

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OKPrincess — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:05:55 GMT

Thank you for the reminder about scam alerts.

Times are tough for these scam artists too and they need money. Pitiful!!

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Mindy D — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 01:44:40 GMT

@grandme wrote:
My husband got one saying someone was trying to purchase a 200.00 gift card. He also got a call about it and said they were investigating. He could not log in to Amazon. He called next day and Amazon rep told him that number that called him fraudulent and no email was sent by them. My husband computer was compromised too. His mouse was moving independently and his PayPal account was hacked and someone authorized payment to Groupon for 384 390 another 384 and over 1000. My husband is very savvy on the computer and even though PayPal called him and he said no not him and they would open fraud investigation he contacted Bank to stop all PayPal transactions. It cost him 37.50 but well worth it. PayPal said fraud investigation showed no fraud. What!!!!! He told them it wasn't him. He has never connected to Groupon for anything. Be very diligent. He has now ended his PayPal which is owned by eBay for those who don't know. Stay well.

Block your credit with the credit bureaus.

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shoekitty — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 04:17:22 GMT

I got one about Apple Pay today,