They’re trying to steal your personal information, like your account password or your credit card number. In both scenarios, the scammers say you can conveniently press 1 to speak with someone (how nice of them!). In fact, they say your account may have been breached. In another twist on the scam, you get a recorded message that says there’s been suspicious activity in your Apple iCloud account. Your browser does not support the audio element. It could be a suspicious purchase, a lost package, or an order they can’t fulfill. The message says there’s something wrong with your account. In one version of the scam, you get a call and a recorded message that says it’s Amazon. Here’s what you need to know about these calls. Scammers are calling people and using the names of two companies everyone knows, Apple and Amazon, to rip people off. Identity Theft and Online Security Show/hide Identity Theft and Online Security menu items.Unwanted Calls, Emails, and Texts Show/hide Unwanted Calls, Emails, and Texts menu items.Money-Making Opportunities and Investments.Jobs and Making Money Show/hide Jobs and Making Money menu items.Credit, Loans, and Debt Show/hide Credit, Loans, and Debt menu items.Shopping and Donating Show/hide Shopping and Donating menu items.All our print and online content always has been and always will be FREE OF CHARGE. All of this comes at ZERO cost to our readers. Our publication has won numerous awards over the last 25 years including Best Free Newspaper of the Year (Premios AEEPP), Company of the Year (Costa del Sol Business Awards) and Collaboration with Foreigners honours (Mijas Town Hall). The paper prints over 150 news stories a week with many hundreds more on the web – no one else even comes close. With around half a million print readers a week and over 1.5 million web views per month, EWN has the biggest readership of any English language newspaper in Spain. Whether it’s local news in Spain, UK news or international stories, we are proud to be the voice for the expat communities who now call Spain home. And it’s FREE!Ĭovering the Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca, Almeria, Axarquia, Mallorca and beyond, EWN supports and inspires the individuals, neighbourhoods, and communities we serve, by delivering news with a social conscience. Known as the PEOPLE’S PAPER, Euro Weekly News is the leading English language newspaper in Spain. Thank you for taking the time to read this news article “Amazon Customers Warned About The Latest Phone Call Scam”.įor more UK daily news, Spanish daily news and, Global news stories, visit the Euro Weekly News home page. This is a SCAM – hang up and report!”.Īnother told how, “It thanked me for renewing my Amazon account for £79.99, I was then invited to press one to cancel”.Īmazon has provided guidance to help those who think they may have been targeted by a scam, and explain that nobody from their company would ever email or call a customer to ask someone for their personal information. It is unfortunately a very simple scam by the caller to uncover personal details, like bank account numbers or other sensitive private information which the scammers can then use for criminal purposes, such as identity fraud, or cleaning out the bank account.Ī number of people told Amazon about their experiences, one said, “Just had a phone call claiming to be Amazon, it said my subs would be taken this week, and that if I pressed one, I could speak to a manager. The latest scam involves a phone call from somebody claiming to work for Amazon telling people they have had an amount charged to their Amazon account, and the caller then tells them to ‘Press 1’ if they wish to ‘cancel’ the payment. AMAZON Customers Warned About The Latest Phone Call Scam asking about supposed account paymentsĪmazon is warning its millions of customers to be aware of a dangerous new phone scam that has been reported to them, relating to their Amazon Prime service.Īmazon Prime, is, of course, their paid subscription service, which can help people get faster delivery of goods, as well as accessing exclusive film and TV content, and had more than 15m subscribers in 2019, so this is an obvious target for scammers to target large numbers of potential victims.
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