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Amazon Phone Scam

Anonymous032819 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:08:30 GMT

Today, I received four (4) phone calls from "Amazon" claiming that there was possible fraudulent charge on my account of $700 made in Dayton, Ohio.

It was a computer voice, and for a moment, I thought that it was real.

Just to be sure, I checked my account on Amazon, no charges were there that I didn't make.

Of course it goes without saying that yes, I did check my charge card too, and nothing amiss there either.

I thought that I would just pass this along in case anybody else gets a call from "Amazon" .

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

skatting44 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:16:04 GMT

There are also Amazon scams abt packages to be delivered or shipments to be sent .

I have reported them to Amazon .

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

KingstonsMom — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:22:17 GMT

Something funny happened to me this weekend when I got an email from Amazon that someone was trying to log into my Amazon account.

Turned out it was my DH who was sitting in front of me on his laptop, ordering something on our Amazon account (it's in my name), LOL!

I did appreciate their diligence, but I know your situation was a different situation, I was just surprised that they notified me of his logging in.

Glad you didn't fall for the scam, it pays to check them out.

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

furbabylover — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:29:02 GMT

@Anonymous032819 Two years ago I had to cancel every bank account, credit card and buy a new computer because I fell for an incredibly realistic Amazon scam. These perpetrators were so clever they had an identical page to Amazon, complete with my name on it when I decided to look up a product. The page said I needed to call their 800 number and within minutes they were in my computer. Long story short, I alerted Amazon to this very sophisticated scam and they told me they knew all about it- but they did NOTHING to warn their customers who were vulnerable to it. My husband got a text message today saying our Amazon account had been hacked. Checked Amazon's website and nothing was wrong. Watch out for these evil crooks!!

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RoughDraft — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:33:17 GMT

@Anonymous032819 Yes, I've had two very similar calls on voice mail in the last month. It must be the new rage.

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

Dar321 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:41:15 GMT

I had that same call a few months ago. Called for about 3 days straight, a few times a day, till it stopped. I've also had Apple emails, and PayPal emails, that look very legit. I knew right away they were phishing, but they're definettly getting more sophisticated. Keep up with learining about this stuff. It's the way of the world now.

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fthunt — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:41:33 GMT

I received such a call yesterday (Sunday) about MY account - some thing some thing...........I don't and never have had an Amazon account.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:42:07 GMT

@Anonymous032819. As long as you keep answering your phone when you get these calls, you'll continue to receive them. I never answer calls from unfamiliar numbers and get maybe one call every two months. I figure important callers will call back. I also don't have an answering machine. There is nothing on my line to make a scammer thing its a live, active number with a waiting sucker.

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

sann — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:45:20 GMT

@Anonymous032819 wrote:
Today, I received four (4) phone calls from "Amazon" claiming that there was possible fraudulent charge on my account of $700 made in Dayton, Ohio.

It was a computer voice, and for a moment, I thought that it was real.

Just to be sure, I checked my account on Amazon, no charges were there that I didn't make.

Of course it goes without saying that yes, I did check my charge card too, and nothing amiss there either.

I thought that I would just pass this along in case anybody else gets a call from

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

LuvmyLab — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 02:16:18 GMT

I get at least 3 recorded scam calls a week stating that it is Amazon and that if I don't pay my bill there will be repurcussions. Whenever you order from Amazon it has to be paid for before they will send you the item. There is never a "bill" to pay.

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PhoebeDragon1 — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:56:13 GMT

Great point about paying up front for Amazon products and never being "billed". I have found that having your credit card set up for alerts at a particular number...$100 or whatever you are comfortable setting...is a great way to stay ahead of all of the hackers and skimmers. I had someone skim my bank credit card in the supermarket and within the time I loaded my car and drove home the skimmer tried to use it to buy very expensive audio equipment on line. My bank was right on it and a message was waiting for me from the fraud department when I arrived home. This was prior to all of the RFD protection now built into handbags and wallets, but I continue to use this protection with my credit cards.

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

godi — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:39:11 GMT

I got those also. Blocked them.

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ValuSkr — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:54:02 GMT

I've gotten those calls too, about a $600 - $700 Amazon charge. They said I should ignore the call if I really made the purchase, and call them at such-and-such a number if I did not. I googled the number and found it was a scam.

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

millieshops — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:03:40 GMT

haven’t had phone calls, but I have had both emails and text messages purportedly from Amazon. Hard to get a couple of hundred dollars “reward” when you don’t even have an active account.

But while I’m here, I’ll use this thread to warn of what I think is the work of an Apple scammer. For more than a week,on both my devices I have been asked to sign in with my new password. (There isn’t one) and today the message tightened to a threat I wouldn’t be able to sign on at all. Yet, here I am

Re: Amazon Phone Scam

sherylsiu — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:31:20 GMT

I always hit redial and when they answer I hang up on them and I will call over and over while I'm watching TV it makes you feel better

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cindyNC — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:09:48 GMT

The scammers must be on a roll today.....we got several "Amazon" scam phone calls also.