New Phone Scam Targets Amazon Customers

OneEyedDiva

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I read about two separate incidents yesterday. One was relayed by the N.J. writer in the linked article who actually covers scams. Yet she said she was almost fooled. Another woman in a different state said scammers claimed that someone charged an XBox using her account. This article details the scam:
https://nj1015.com/new-phone-scam-targets-amazon-customers-in-nj/
I shop at Amazon often but since I have scam alert on my cell phone and rarely pick up for 800 numbers that do manage to show up, I haven't encountered this scam. Have you?
 

OneEyedDiva said:
I read about two separate incidents yesterday. One was relayed by the N.J. writer in the linked article who actually covers scams. Yet she said she was almost fooled. Another woman in a different state said scammers claimed that someone charged an XBox using her account. This article details the scam:
https://nj1015.com/new-phone-scam-targets-amazon-customers-in-nj/
I shop at Amazon often but since I have scam alert on my cell phone and rarely pick up for 800 numbers that do manage to show up, I haven't encountered this scam. Have you?
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Wow! Just looked at another thread with snakes and now this one with scams.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I read about two separate incidents yesterday. One was relayed by the N.J. writer in the linked article who actually covers scams. Yet she said she was almost fooled. Another woman in a different state said scammers claimed that someone charged an XBox using her account. This article details the scam:
https://nj1015.com/new-phone-scam-targets-amazon-customers-in-nj/
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We live in a fairly prosperous zip code, so we get 3 or 4 "robo calls" a day. If I don't recognize the caller ID I just disconnect it, unanswered. Answered one in error a few months ago. It was my grandson (don't have a grandson) calling to report that he had been arrested in connection with an automobile accident. I strung him along until he got to the bail part. Told him he should have called someone else -- click, dial tone.
 
Thank you, OneEyeDiva, for the warning, I haven't heard anything
about that happening over here, yet, but no doubt it will arrive, a
few months ago, I got a message telling me that my Amazon Prime
had taken £79 from my card, this wasn't true, I didn't click the link
in the Email, I just went to Amazon and checked.

Still good to be reminded to be careful, thank you once more.

Mike.
 
Ah yes, the “unusual activity” scam! I more often get the e-mail Amazon scam than the phone one, but have gotten bogus phone calls saying that three expensive computers have been charged to my account which has been locked, and to dispute the charges and unlock the account, call the number provided immediately. Checking Amazon first, none of this of course ever happened.

As Fox Mulder wisely counsels, “Trust no one…”
 
I haven't gotten it on the phone to my knowledge, but I usually don't pick up if I don't recognize the caller, so who knows? But I have gotten it on email. They always make up some odd-sounding charge, like $293.37, to make it sound more realistic. But why would Amazon be contacting me to warn me that I had bought something from them? (I do buy from Amazon, frequently.) I always just ignore emails like that.
 
I encountered a problem with Amazon when I ordered 1 DVD. The DVD was shipped via FedEx. What a joke! I get phone calls for the last 3 mornings telling me that my order has arrived. The pickup center is way across the city near the airport. It is a 2 hour return trip and with the price of gas I am not going. Try to reach FedEx is a "joke" too. The 800 number is always busy and even their tracking number does not work. What a stupid system for delivering 1 DVD. I miss the "good ole' days" when Canada Post delivered right to my mail box and I could pick up the order in my house slippers. Some changes are not for the better!
 
ElCastor said:
We live in a fairly prosperous zip code, so we get 3 or 4 "robo calls" a day. If I don't recognize the caller ID I just disconnect it, unanswered. Answered one in error a few months ago. It was my grandson (don't have a grandson) calling to report that he had been arrested in connection with an automobile accident. I strung him along until he got to the bail part. Told him he should have called someone else -- click, dial tone.
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Got that same call...from Hawaii where our grand daughter was. Long story - just proves so many that are smart enough to make a good living the "legal way" choose to be crooks. You suppose as kids they dreamed of growing up to be scam artists...what aspirations, huh!
 
most scam stuff comes to me through email. usually the spam thing picks it up but once in a while it makes to the inbox. i just delete it. as for the calls...no because i don't answer numbers i don't know. i also know what to look for because they try to make the numbers look local to entice you to answer them. if i get the same set of numbers several times a day and every day for several days with no voicemail it goes into call rejection.
 
They do it because it WORKS ..........No one often fesses up to being taken but if it was not profitable it would end.
I seldom order anything do not use Amazon at all ... so i just laugh when i get your package has been diverted click here texts etc.....
simply put every email etc i ever get i never click on but go through the long way to connect with bank/ accounts takes a few moments extra but those who just click get taken period .....
i do not answer phone often unless i know the number or am expecting a call from that location..... if it is real they will leave message most scams no longer do.

seems as if Amazon customers had their info sold to telemarketers
 
When I was on my phone today I got an incoming call that looked similar to an important known number, so I picked up. It started up with the Amazon ….blah, blah. I disconnected immediately. Now they know my number is real so I expect more calls.
 
I never answer my phone and I just block callers that appear as spam, but I have been receiving numerous emails from "Amazon" indicating that my credit card has been declined. I just delete them. It is so easy to go on the Amazon site to see if my orders are still active. Either these scammers or their intended victims are pretty stupid.
 
I'm amazed that I haven't gotten scam calls or emails about Amazon, as I do most of my purchases through them. Perhaps it is the constant barrage of unknown phone numbers that I never pick up and that do not leave a message. I check the number online and then I block those at once. What I have had is three days of anonymous texts about my pay-pal account. Haha - I've never opened one! It's just a pain in the arse to have to delete and/or otherwise deal with this crap. I keep a text file noting all the BS.

FROM 906571509266 -
7.23.22 - SCAM TEXT "PAYPAL-SERVICES:YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN RESTRICTED. SECURE YOUR ACCOUNT HERE>HTTPS://me20.do/Gxh4?HxToEsl~)wJxhKxdew" on Friday July 22 2:45 PM
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7.25.22 - same as above but different - PayPal scam - "support-9ng8@24622-8... YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN RESTRICTED. check your case status at tacolottery.club/Grjwxw0Q9~) 1:06 AM" (when I went to delete it, screen flashed: converting to multimedia message) (WHAT A HOOT! I'm sure not going to click a link to a taco club in an effort to fix a non-existent pay-pal account!)
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7.26.22 - same as first - slight diff url
 
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I don't think it matters whether we really use Amazon or not, these calls and emails are probably computer-generated and go out to millions at a time. The numbers they call are probably selected by using a math algorithm, and they cover every number in the book. Once in a while, they hit pay dirt.

The emails would obviously be harder to fake, and they probably get them by hacking into business web sites.

That "grandson who needs money" scam is as old as the hills. It began around the same time as the Nigerian scam that everyone was getting. How sad that a lot of scared elderly people probably fell for it, and lost their life savings.
 

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