Amazon Prime Membership telephone scam

Wed 22 Jul 2020, 23:26

Janet, I am against Amazon because they do not pay tax in this country despite making huge profits.

During the lockdown, I have done almost all my shopping online too, but I have been able to get everything I wanted elsewhere.

Wed 22 Jul 2020, 17:13

Why is everyone so against Amazon? Are they too successful?

Since the lockdown, I have done all my shopping, apart from the local Co-op, on line. I have purchased pharmaceuticals, kitchenalia, bedding, even make-up from them. It comes promptly at a good price and I just love ‘Track your package’.

All saves me using my car and buying petrol - what’s not to like?

Sat 11 Jul 2020, 14:08

I just had a call pretending to be from Amazon. I pressed two to query it and the guy asked me to access my Amazon account though my laptop. I told him that on second thoughts I wasn't bothered if the year's subscription went in one go, at which point he asked me if my IP address was in California. I told him no and he then tried to make out my account was being accessed from there. I told him I would get back to Amazon at a more convenient time. I'm always suspicious if someone wants me to open my laptop and, "They will tell me what to do!"

Thu 9 Jul 2020, 09:35 (last edited on Thu 9 Jul 2020, 09:38)

I've had quite a few of these calls over the past few months.  Amazon itself tells me that they would never send out such messages.  In February, I actually had £25+ taken out of an unused credit card twice on the same day purortedly from Amazon Australia.  As I was out of the country at the time but NOT in Australia, I didn't discover it until I got my invoice which should have read NIL.  I got the money back pretty quickly after I phoned the credit card people.

Mon 6 Jul 2020, 21:34

The Consumers Association are currently running a campaign against scams.  You can sign up to Which? scam alerts for a weekly update. You don't need to be a paid-up Which? member to get them.  I thought I was scam savvy but there are always more being identified by Which?

Mon 6 Jul 2020, 09:36

This morning's call from Am-a-ZON informed me that our bank account will be debited with "seventy nine point nine nine" for our non-existent Am-a-ZON prime account.  The last time we had a similar call, which wasn't that long ago, the amount was only "thirty nine point nine nine".  And I thought that the government claims to have inflation under control ....

Mon 6 Jul 2020, 07:14

If they offer me the best deal then I will use them.

Sun 5 Jul 2020, 19:29 (last edited on Sun 5 Jul 2020, 19:31)

'I steer well clear of Amazon even when it's not scamming'

It’s not Amazon that’s doing the scamming! Scammers choose a well known company, and latch on to it. We got the phone call about Amazon Prime even though we have never used it!

Sun 5 Jul 2020, 15:39

Liz: I've no love for Amazon, but where on earth do you get this nonsense about its being a monopoly?

I know that's the fashionable theory every lazy journalist churns out daily. But the truth is that Amazon keeps most of its sales secret and even more of its data…

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Sun 5 Jul 2020, 11:17

I steer well clear of Amazon even when it's not scamming.  It is a voracious company that is becoming too close to a monopoly for comfort.

Fri 3 Jul 2020, 22:41

Indeed. I'm guessing the scammers choose to hit you first thing in the morning in hope that you are half awake

Fri 3 Jul 2020, 16:27 (last edited on Fri 3 Jul 2020, 16:31)

Well it had scam written all over it, we’ve had several of them over the past year, as well as the recording where £600 has been taken out of your Visa/Mastercard account (they never seem to know which). Since when has Amazon ever communicated by recorded message to a landline?

Fri 3 Jul 2020, 14:20

I have confirmed with Amazon Customer Service that is is not them

Fri 3 Jul 2020, 12:19

I too have received many similar calls, purporting to be from Amazon..Yesterday alone  I had three such calls, always somehow at inconvenient times!

Fri 3 Jul 2020, 11:44

Just letting you know I got a call at 9 am (approx) from a robot pretending to be from Amazon saying that they would be automatically renewing my Amazon Prime membership for £70 a year and that if I had a problem to press a number to speak to a manager. I smelt a rat and hung up. You should do the same. The robot spoke even though I didn't say anything and the caller ID was not retraceable even though it presented itself at the time of the call! A spoof caller ID. This of course was on my barely used land line. My mother apparently got the same call earlier this week. Don't be fooled by these people!