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A friend contacted me the other day about a scam call purporting to come from Amazon’s customer support department. She wasn’t home at the time, so the scammer left a message stating that a charge of $749 appeared on her account. Of course, she didn’t actually order anything for that price, and, although she suspected it was a scam, something about it caught her attention, so she called the phone number displayed on her caller I.D.
In the old scam days, calling the number on the caller I.D. would have connected her to the scammers, however, when she called, it connected her to the real Amazon customer service center. The Amazon representative explained that the call she received was definitely a scam, however, he too was mystified that the caller…
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Posted by: Bob Covello |
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August 26, 2020 at 09:10PM
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