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Has anyone had any computerised dodgy phone calls from Amazon regarding recent free trial of Prime Video.
I,ve also received an email stating if I don't cancel my free trial within 24 hours I will be charged the annual subscription
The email said the way to cancel my free trial was to follow the link and then give my credit card details including my 3 digit security code. At this point I stopped giving my details.
I went back to the original email and followed the link which looked like the amazon website but was allowed to logon using a false password.
I immediately changed my password on my Amazon app.
I,ve also received an email stating if I don't cancel my free trial within 24 hours I will be charged the annual subscription
The email said the way to cancel my free trial was to follow the link and then give my credit card details including my 3 digit security code. At this point I stopped giving my details.
I went back to the original email and followed the link which looked like the amazon website but was allowed to logon using a false password.
I immediately changed my password on my Amazon app.
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I think this scam has been mentioned previously but I can’t find it.
You can cancel your months trial anyway and it will still run for the 30 days but do it through the Amazon site not the scammers link.
You can cancel your months trial anyway and it will still run for the 30 days but do it through the Amazon site not the scammers link.
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There was a programme on channel5 about this type of scam. It'll be on catch up. It's incredible how sophisticated they've become at appearing to be legitimate. Taking advantage of vulnerable people is the lowest of the low.
Just be sensible, and never trust unsolicited communications.
Just be sensible, and never trust unsolicited communications.
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Yes, these scammers aren't daft. There will probably have been a massive spike in people taking the free Prime trial when the PL games were on so their chances of finding customers will have increased. Sadly this will no doubt have caught a few people out.
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They don't have to be that sophisticated to work. Some of the best are relatively simple, designed to pray on people that don't think too hard. If the caller or whatever sounds as though they are trying to help them they just fall for it. See "get brexit done", "take back control" etc etc.Svenster wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 9:50 pmThere was a programme on channel5 about this type of scam. It'll be on catch up. It's incredible how sophisticated they've become at appearing to be legitimate. Taking advantage of vulnerable people is the lowest of the low.
Just be sensible, and never trust unsolicited communications.
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If you're doing a post on the lines of "I'm clever because I have the right opinions", you might at least spell it right.timshorts wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:49 amThey don't have to be that sophisticated to work. Some of the best are relatively simple, designed to pray on people that don't think too hard. If the caller or whatever sounds as though they are trying to help them they just fall for it. See "get brexit done", "take back control" etc etc.
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Stick clear of Amazon.
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Not really the point. What I think (on this thread anyway), is immaterial.
In the case of the current election, it's a case of what Mr. Cummings believes, I think, and how he uses it. It's very clever, I suppose, but is designed to sway a certain type of person.
There are numerous examples in the past. If people were convinced to sign up and put their bodies on the line (voluntarily) in WW1 for example - on either side - then getting an equivalent of those people to type in a password onto a genuine-looking web-site must be a doddle.
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Am I having a stroke?
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Oh dear, everyone voted Brexit because they were lied to. Yeah yeah yeah - we've heard it all before. I voted out and didn't listen to a word of all the sh!te that was touted by either side. I just used my personal experience and opinion gleaned from 40 odd years of something I voted against in the first place. But that, of course, doesn't happen in the deluded world of the remainers does it. Just for the record I don't give a toss about immigration either.timshorts wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:49 amThey don't have to be that sophisticated to work. Some of the best are relatively simple, designed to pray on people that don't think too hard. If the caller or whatever sounds as though they are trying to help them they just fall for it. See "get brexit done", "take back control" etc etc.
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Do we really need to know the answer to that on here.
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I've had one of these phone calls today
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Sorry was just reading about an Amazon scam that somehow turned into a political debate... Had to go over it a few times to check I wasnt
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Wtf has this thread got to do with Brexittimshorts wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:49 amThey don't have to be that sophisticated to work. Some of the best are relatively simple, designed to pray on people that don't think too hard. If the caller or whatever sounds as though they are trying to help them they just fall for it. See "get brexit done", "take back control" etc etc.
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Well it was meant to be a topical example of something, but I put my hands up, I've fallen into the Johnson trap of thinking that every possible evil going back to original sin is down to our not getting brexit done.....
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Seek help