Amazon must have watched Scamwatch too, email arrived today lol! Now they just have to check every customer read it
We want to help protect you from scammers that attempt to impersonate Amazon. Remember these important clues so that you can identify scams and keep your account and information safe:
1. Never feel pressured to give information (such as your credit card number or account password) over the phone, especially if the call was unexpected. Scammers may try to use calls, texts, and emails to impersonate Amazon customer service. If you're ever unsure, it's safest to end the call/chat and reach out directly to customer support through the Amazon app or website.
2. Never pay over the phone. Amazon will never ask you to provide payment information, including gift cards (or “verification cards”, as some scammers call them) for products or services over the phone.
3. Trust Amazon-owned channels. Always go through the Amazon mobile app or website when seeking customer support or when looking to make changes to your account.
4. Be wary of false urgency. Scammers may try to create a sense of urgency to persuade you to do what they're asking. Be wary any time someone tries to convince you that you must act now.
I got that email from Amazon this morning as well.
It’s a shame that they can’t put a block on the emails I get in my junk mail, telling me that I’ve bought an iPhone from Amazon via PayPal and to click on the link to verify the purchase. 🙄
1) I haven’t bought one as I already have two iPhones and 2) Amazon.co.uk don’t deal in dollars and 3) I buy mine direct from Apple.
And 4) I’m not stupid. 😉
It’s good that Amazon are apparently on the ball though. 👍
I had a real scammer today for the first time - he had the cheek to come to my door!
By the time I got to the door, he was at the end of the drive. I decided to be polite as he now knew where I lived, so when he said, in his grey shorts and vest "I'm from Postcode Lottery", "I replied "Of course you are" and shut the door.
I had a real scammer today for the first time - he had the cheek to come to my door!
By the time I got to the door, he was at the end of the drive. I decided to be polite as he now knew where I lived, so when he said, in his grey shorts and vest "I'm from Postcode Lottery", "I replied "Of course you are" and shut the door.
Cockney sounding shyster!
I’m guessing he wasn’t wearing red and carrying a gold envelope then. 😉
Nearly every day I get an email telling me that someone has tried to log into my Facebook account.
There’s only one error there ……. I have never had, nor will I ever have, a Facebook account. Hopefully no one, who has got an account, will click on the attached link if they get this email.
Although I know that everyone here is too savvy to do that 👍
When I added my new mobile to my McAfee security checks, dark web etc, it instantly came up with this.
“Your phone number was stolen”
In April 2021 over half a billion scraped Facebook profiles were posted freely on a hacking forum. The data encompassed profiles from over 100 countries and included fields such as email, facebook id, birthday, phone number and other PII. The data has since been shared widely on a variety of forums.
Well who knew! I have been assured by my phone provider not to be concerned, as once said numbers are identified, blocked, no longer have links to the person concerned in the breach, the numbers can be re-issued at a later time.
There’s a programme on BBC1 every morning that I’ve been watching called “Dirty Rotten Scammers.” They’ve highlighted the number of data breaches on companies who should inform customers when that happens, but many don’t, and the scammers then latch onto those who have been affected. As well as using the information on someone that they’ve “found,” they then sell the information onto others.
The team in the programme have “elite scammers” working for them and the amount of information on all of us that is out there is pretty alarming, including full names, DOB, passwords etc etc. Some people have been scammed by some of the things that we’ve highlighted on this thread, but some have their identities stolen with relative ease without having much of an online presence.
This morning they had an elderly lady who was scammed when someone opened a Deliveroo account in her name and she rarely goes on a computer. She was scammed because her family had Facebook accounts and they mentioned her on there. 😳