Here's message from my landline I just received from Amazon

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
Location
Central NY
Amazon. This is to authorize the payment of $799 for your recent order on Amazon for Apple iPhone 11. If you did not place this order then please press one and speak to our representative,. Thank you, Hello, Hello, Hello.

Interestingly, Amazon does not have my landline number but surprisingly can be found by anyone in the local phone directory. If Amazon wanted to call me they would call my cell but is not in the local phone directly. Besides my bank would not deduct $799 from my account without prior authorization from me. No surprise I didn't buy the scam.
 

I got the same call a few minutes ago. When I got a similar e-mail a few weeks ago (that included Amazon's Logo), I contacted Amazon & they said it was a scam & to ignore it.
 
I mentioned this elsewhere but it's why I started letting the answering machine grab each and every call. (at least on the landline) And I generally don't answer the cell if I don't know who in the hell is calling.
 
I rarely get spam calls or texts, but I got one yesterday which is the latest one to go around. It's purporting to be from Royal Mail, saying that without paying a fee for the tax on my parcel, then it can't be delivered. Click on the link etc.. and pay the stated amount.

This is a relatively new one since we left the European Union, and many of our online orders are now carrying a customs charge , so they'll catch a few people with this one, before everyone cottons onto it..

I just block these scammers.
 
We have T-Mobile as our cell phone carrier, and they have an option to send any unknown calls straight to voice mail. My iPhone has that option, too; so only calls from people in my contacts will alert on my phone, and any other calls just go to voicemail. Most of the scammers and telemarketers do not leave a voicemail, but I can block those phone numbers if they do leave one and I know what the call is about.
I have added all of the important numbers to my contact list, so I don’t miss calls from someone I want to get a call from.
 
These "spam" phone calls really started becoming a nuisance a few months ago. The bulk of them show a local phone number on our caller ID, and we've even received a couple that showed our own phone number in the ID. I signed up for NoMoRobo, but that didn't seem to do any good. I finally installed a call blocker on our phone, and if it's a number we don't recognize, we just let it ring, and the caller can leave a message...which almost never happens, Then, I add that number to the call blocker...and so far, we've blocked over 600 numbers.
 
If i believed all the scam e-mails i got i would be a bit coin multi millionaire,shopping for free with my £1,000 shopping vouchers at a variety of suprmarkets,getting surprise parcels from Amazon for just one pound postage and testing all sorts of products for free that i get to keep.
Unsubscribing from these e-mails is pointless as they just reappear from a different address.
i delete a couple of dozen every day.And i don’t think BT are going to turn off my broadband this evening either.
That automated message is a regular...
 
My landline is ex-directory and the only people who have both my landline and my mobile number are BT. Yet I get these scam calls on both, if I don't answer the landline, they try the mobile. Obviously one of BT's employees has our details and is passing them on.
 
Then there are the e-mails that say your Amazon or PayPal account has been locked due to illegal or "suspicious" activity, and they want you to click on a provided link to remedy this. Go directly to the site questioned, and you'll see that your accounts are just fine. Question everything and trust no one are phrases I live by...
 
I got an Email supposedly from the DVLA, telling me
that my car isn't taxed etc., etc., please click the link
and make a payment.

Didn't do that, but I did pass the information on to
my Email provider, the DVLA and the Police, the return
address on the Email was in Belgium.

Mike.
 
And now they are calling late at night. We got a phone call after 10:00 last night. Usually we don't answer if we don't know the number but we did last night in case it was an emergency from a relative. Of course, it was a robo-call.
 

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