{"id":6553,"date":"2020-09-29T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:11:47","slug":"beware-the-amazon-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=6553","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Amazon Scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ed writes…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you getting irritating automated calls from Amazon threatening to take payments from your bank account for an Amazon Prime subscription?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPress 1 to speak to an Amazon agent\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a barefaced scam. Normally when you press \u201d1\u201d, nothing happens, and you get disconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one day last week I pressed \u201c1\u201d and was connected to a Chinese-sounding lady who told me my account had been hacked and she would help me to stop the calls and track down the culprit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was out walking, but she said she would phone me back.  She told me to go to my computer and open a webpage called \u201cTeamviewer\u201d. I was then instructed to download some software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily I had already Googled \u201cAmazon Prime scam\u201d, which revealed that I was about to have my computer stripped bare of all financial data, passwords etc with a view to raiding my bank account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasted the young lady\u2019s time (and mine) for about ten minutes before accusing her of being, amongst several unprintable things, a common thief, and a filthy scammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To my amazement she went on protesting that she was from Amazon and was trying to help me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you receive these calls on a mobile phone, they are easy to block.  Just go to call history, click on the number and select \u201cblock number\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon is a huge and profitable company and surely has the resources to track down these criminals, who are causing serious damage to the company\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about Teamviewer software here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed writes… Are you getting irritating automated calls from Amazon threatening to take payments from your bank account for an Amazon Prime subscription? \u201cPress 1 to speak to an Amazon agent\u201d. This is a barefaced scam. Normally when you press \u201d1\u201d, nothing happens, and you get disconnected. But one day last week I pressed \u201c1\u201d … Continue reading “Beware the Amazon Scammers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1HH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}