Don’t pay for anything with a gift card. ![]() Use the information on Amazon’s website and not a number listed in an unexpected email or text. Here are some ways to avoid an Amazon impersonator scam: Once that information is theirs, the money is, too. In another version of the scam, you’re told that hackers have gotten access to your account - and the only way to supposedly protect it is to buy gift cards and share the gift card number and PIN on the back. Any money you send back to “Amazon” is your money (not an overpayment) - and as soon as you send it out of your account, it becomes theirs. What really happens? The scammer moves your own money from one of your bank accounts to the other (like your Savings to Checkings, or vice versa) to make it look like you were refunded. They then ask you to send back the difference. In one version, scammers offer to “refund” you for an unauthorized purchase but “accidentally transfer” more than promised. ![]() These scams can look a few different ways. Has Amazon contacted you to confirm a recent purchase you didn’t make or to tell you that your account has been hacked? According to the FTC’s new Data Spotlight, since July 2020, about one in three people who have reported a business impersonator scam say the scammer pretended to be Amazon.
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