Phone Scam!
I just had a phone call from someone supposedly at Amazon, asking me to verify a purchase for $799. If this was not authorised by me I should press 1, which I did then hung up right away.
I did NOT give them any account information.
Then I phoned my bank and let them know that if such a purchase appears they should refuse the payment. The lovely girl on the phone said all should be well since I had not given them any account details.
so BEWARE people, any phone calls from numbers unknown to you, from anyone asking to verify a large $$$ purchase, HANG UP.
.png)
We get those fairly regularly. I don't even push one, I just hang up.
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child; I've never had one like this before, but I'll keep aware now.
DeleteSadly, such scams are becoming common.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Victor SE Moubarak; they have been common for a long while, but this one was new to me.
DeleteHello, River! I've been away from blogging on a regular basis for so long and I'm trying to return back to it! I'm responding to your above reply to Victor. I do a lot of scanning (NOT scamming!!) when I read, but lately I've come up with some doozies. I don't remember any to give you an example, but I thought your reply back to Victor meant you were joking around: "...Victor SE Moubarak; they have been common for a long while..." In my haste I thought you wrote: YOU have been common for a long time..." hee hee
DeleteBecky; nice to see you here :)
DeleteYep, fraud continues in societies which reject Scripture.
ReplyDeleteSue; I don't think scripture has anything to do with it.
DeleteYou should not have pressed one. Just hang up. If your phone number display doesn't tell you it is someone you know, don't answer. If it is important they will call back or leave a message. Wow, by your comments you are being attacked. Now go off and follow Scripture.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; I pressed one because the voice said if I did not make this purchase I should press one. I had a "stupid!" moment I think.
DeleteDon't even press 1. Just hang up.
ReplyDeleteGranny Annie; that's the plan from now on.
DeleteI got one of those in email form. I was to verify a $700 purchase and it gave the ? name and town of the person I had bought it for. Did not open it and ignored it. They sure are getting persistent out there.
ReplyDeleteArkansas Patti; I hover the mouse over the addressee in emails I'm not sure of, the url is usually some gobbledegook and I send it to my spam folder and delete that daily.
DeleteSadly, many people are not as alert as you and these B******** rip mostly older people out of millions of dollars. I am posting a similar rant about these types of ass-hats!
ReplyDeletejoeh; I had a 'stupid' moment because I do occasionally buy stuff from Amazon, but never such and expensive purchase. I'll read your post later.
DeleteHaving just waded through my own bit of credit card fraud, I'll watch for this, too. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJoanne; or watch for anything similar, not all countries get the same scams.
DeleteThanks for the warning.
ReplyDeleteRemember that if they send you an email that says, "Dear Customer" it is also a scam. They know your name if you are a customer.
I just drop the phone for a while and let them stew and then hang up. Or if a boring day I play along for a while.
DeleteXO
WWW
messymimi and WWW; I used to leave the land line phone and walk away to let them stew, now I just hang up, because mobile batteries can run down too fast.
DeleteDear customer is a dead giveaway, as is anything addressed on the envelope to owner/occupier.
I got that same call, several times a week. For that same amount, too! The machine picked up, and I listened to the recording later. After a couple weeks, they stopped. Last year we kept getting calls that a warrant had been issued for our arrest if we didn't call such and such number, and "give your case number." Nobody ever showed up to arrest us. We don't have any case number. The local paper had an article interviewing the county sheriff warning of this scam.
ReplyDeleteVal; they are persistent aren't they? I haven't got an arrest call, but I have been called about insurance after my car crash. I don't own a car, ha ha to them.
DeleteThe SAME happened to Ingo!!! Via e-mail, though. Crazy times! Glad you came out of it like this!
ReplyDeleteIris Flavia; It's good that we are all well aware of the scams.
DeleteWonder why they do this - must be idiots around who fall for it? Like... idiots?! Let me give you one million euros for an answer ;-) Oh, yeah, you have no use for that, I forgot (and I don´t have them).
DeleteI still have some 50 Australian Dollars from 2019... And I´ll keep them cause some day we are allowed to come back. I´m sure.
I haven't gotten the amazon call. But I get plenty of scam calls.
ReplyDeleteThat seems too be the fraud of the month right now.
ReplyDeleteI don't even blink at those any more..I just block and delete..
ReplyDelete