There is a new phone scam that is hitting the Northland. It starts with someone telling you there has been a large purchase made on your Amazon account.
We are being trained nowadays not to give personal information to a phone call if we think it is a scam, and that is how they play into you. They ask you to press 1, but we are being trained to ask for a callback number. This scam gives you one and tells you to call and they will straighten out this fraudulent purchase.
If you call, that’s when they will ask for personal information, and you think you are talking to someone from Amazon, when really you might be talking to the person right next to the scammer that called you in the first place.
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What do you do? Nothing. If you want to, check your account for this “so-called” fraudulent purchase, use your phone app or computer. You will see that there is nothing. The other thing to do is don’t give any information when they call you.
AARP says older people are being targeted first because they might not be tech-savvy and can’t check their app as easily, and might be concerned because they don’t want a large purchase on their credit card.
Both my buddy and I got one of these calls. I know my purchases, so I called the scammer out and they hung up. My buddy was concerned, so he called me. He is someone who is not tech-savvy and so he didn’t know how to check. I then contacted Amazon, here is what a rep…
