New Amazon Phone Scam

[biku324]

Just got a $1,000 bogus credit card charge.
Made my complaint to my credit card co.
They removed the charges, closed my card, I chopped it up.

That is the right call.

 

[df06]

Well I see your point; however, I don't have caller I.D. on my garage or laundry room phone. If my phone rings it could be my wife if she's not home, maybe having car trouble.....

I understand. You could not answer it, let her leave a voice mail. You loose 30-60 seconds of time in responding.

 

[Bob L]

I think it should be illegal for anyone to be able to fake a phone number. Not that I answer it anyway but it is the principal of it.

 

[Chino74]

Related but not exactly the same. Years ago I had some identity theft & whoever stole my data set up utilities in some state back east, Ohio maybe. Anyway I get a call from a debt collector saying I had outstanding debt with the phone company, electric company etc..someone had put all this in my name.

I told the person I never lived there & that someone had stolen my identity info, ssn etc. Well, they informed my I would have to file a police report & prove I didn't live there. I told him to pound sand, I wasn't wasting my time, they could do what they wanted & I was not in any case going to pay one thin dime much less what they wanted me to pay. My credit got dinged, end of story, didn't affect me in any significant way.

As for phone scams, like has been said, unknown number don't pick up.

 

[Jebus35745]

I get that call and others. I press the button and when someone responds I say "will you a** holes quit calling" or get more vulgar. They usually get upset. Figure if they aggravate me I'm gonna aggravate them. It's a good way to relieve tension. Get 12 calls some days and it doesn't seem to matter if you answer the call or not. Larry

 

[Deceasedeye]

I find it amazing that as a society we have allowed criminals to destroy a public utility. I find that the phone is almost a useless item today. I no longer have a home phone and unless I know the number I don't answer the cell phone.

If it's important they leave a message, if not oh well.

I am now very hard to scam, I don't answer the phone or even the front door.

Once upon a time, we all had an obsession to answer the phone. If it rang we would run to answer.

Wheelgun has got it...the reason you have a phone is for your private use an convenience period.

 

[Rivoak]

Got a call from "Amazon" saying that a $800 order has been placed and my credit card will be charge unless I respond. Push 1 to acknowledge that the credit card charge is valid and the order will be processed and your card will charged. If you didn't place the order, push 2 where a person comes on the phone and asks for verification of your credit card number to cancel the $800 order. After the first call, we've been called two more time. The caller ID number provided is a disconnected phone in MO.

Amazon will never call about a charge. That's between you and the bank as far as they are concerned. Use AMEX and get instant notifications over your cell phone whenever charges are posted without the card present. There is no rush to correct an improper charge. If your card is authorized for a charge you did not approve, even the banks won't do anything until it is posted.
Call them after the charge is posted to your account.

Even if you do not call them when the charge posts, it will show up on your monthly statement, and under the Fair Credit Billing Act, you have 60 days to contest the charge.

If anybody ever calls about a suspicious charge, and they are not your bank and they won't tell you the last 4 digits on your card without you asking, they are probably criminals. If you have chase bank or Amex and subscribe to notifications, they will almost always notify you of charges within seconds after a suspicious charge is authorized.

About a year ago, I heard my phone chime 3 times in about a minute. The first was a charge I did not make. The second was a charge I did not make. The 3rd was American Express saying my card had been compromised and my account cancelled. Within a few seconds after the third card, I got a call from American Express fraud department. The caller did not ask for information but informed me my card was cancelled because they found suspicious charges and that FEDEX would be delivering a new card to me the next day. They did.

I was like, how did they do that so quickly?


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[mmb617]

Anyone who reads off their credit card number to someone who called them, regardless of who the caller claims to be, shouldn't have a credit card in the first place. Are there really still people that dumb?