Beauty

[icezeus]

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@isaboo wrote:

I have been getting e-mails from "Amazon" telling me that I  need to update my account. I was about to do that but thought it odd that they were asking for my SS # so I did not continue.  I spoke with Amazon and was told my account info was fne  I received another notice yesterday and they told me that they would be shutting my account down if I did not update immed.  

Getting those types of notices is concerning.

@isaboo 

Good job no company that you are legitimately doing business with would ever contact you via e-mail asking for personal information nor will they call you asking for things such as your SS#. Always, be safe and when in doubt contact the company directly as you did, via a number that you have obtained from their website, not one that a potential scamer may provide you with.

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[hookedonq]

Me, too! I have been receiving emails telling me my AmazonPrime membership needs a credit card update. (I don't have Prime, FYI). I forward them to Amazon't phishing department but it's like whack-a-mole...one goes down and another pops up.I feel badly for elderly or anyone who gets hoodwinked into thinking they are actually updating their account info...they use Amazon logo so it looks legit. What a world.

[Jtdmum]

@Witchy Woman I received the PayPal email.  It never surprises me- The scum out there get scummier when things get bad. 

[shopperqvc]

@Calgal2too It's not easy to ignore the phone calls when spoofing is allowed. I have gotten calls where the Caller ID said that the call was coming from a local hospital. Since I do business with them I did answer.

A lady that sounded foreign said I needed insurance. I asked her if she was from the hospital, and of course her answer was yes.

I then told her that if she really was a worker in the hospital she would know I have insurance because I had watched them scan my insurance card into their computer system. I then told her I hoped she gets caught and sent to prison. While she was trying to find something to say, I hung up on her.

The fact is that the scammers are learning we don't pick up if the name or number isn't familiar to us and they use that spoofing app to try to fool us by making it look like the call is from a person or business we know.

The one that called me yesterday about Medicare could hardly speak English, he had a hard time pronouncing Medicare. And I have had a couple of robocalls that sound like elderly people trying to read the things they are supposed to say off of a script. I think those are the ones that bother me the most. Are those seniors needing money that badly they have accepted trying to scam other seniors? Did someone they trust put them up to it. No, I don't feel sorry enough for them to give out my information, and I think that's what we are expected to do. But, I do wonder if they themselves need help.