FRAUD Alert: Amazon Account Hack
Diabolical “hijackers” get away with whatever they will
O, the irony!
A few months ago, I changed my Amazon password to prevent fraud. “They” had emailed me a heads-up as to a recently placed order, asking whether I’d authorized it — which I hadn’t. I replied accordingly and immediately amended my password.
Given what I learned today, thanks to my savvy friend— and confirmed by a call to Amazon customer service — the notification purporting to be from Amazon was a hack. I’ve gotten scam phone call alerts as to Amazon fraud, but it hadn’t occurred to me—duh! — that the email notifications were fraudulent as well.
What remains puzzling is that in one or two instances, I got an email alert as to legitimate charges for orders I’d just placed, which led me to assume that Amazon was being vigilant in my behalf. In retrospect, I realize that “Amazon” and its minions are devious.
I wonder: did the demons do this in order to lure me into changing my password so they could somehow snatch it and obtain control of my account? There was a lull of a few months between my password change in response to the email and the fraudulent charges.
