Posted on 05/11/2021 10:28:00 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
You may have had this happen to you already, but this scam is new to me.
My wife just got a call. It was a prerecorded machine advising her that her Amazon account was being charged for $700.00 and this call was to confirm. Press 1 now if this is incorrect.
She had the presence of mind to immediately hang up.
Anybody else ever receive this type of call?
I know that if you get a call with a simple yes or no answer (Is your name Responsibility 2nd?) and you answer yes, then you're screwed.
But I've not heard of entering a 1 or a 2 will also screw you over. But who knows?
Be Careful with that Phone!
Already had it. It was about my Amazon Prime account. I don’t have an Amazon Prime account, so I hung up.
I have received a call like that. I hung up immediately.
The most important question is “Did my $700 charge to your Amazon account go through?” I’m hoping the stuff gets delivered today.
Leave a message or get blocked.
I’ve had a couple of those calls - one a couple of months ago, the other about a week ago. I check my account for unauthorized activity (there wasn’t), but otherwise ignore it.
Get those type of calls all the time. The amount charged is usually $799.95. (I don’t have an Amazon account!)
I don’t answer ANY call from a number I don’t recognize. My day is too busy to talk about my car’s extended warranty.
I miss the good ole days of “Is your refrigerator running?”.
But sometimes it’s fun to mess with the Indian on the other end of the line.
A couple of years ago, I got a call and was told that there was unauthorized activity on my Apple account. I told him I didn’t have an Apple account, and he asked, “What account DO you have?” I hung up, but it gave me a funny story to tell at the bar.
“Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
I’ve had that one too.
We’ve had that call a few times. We just ignore it. My daughter-in-law’ mother got sucked in stayed on the phone with them for 30 minutes. She gave them a bundle of info.
Hitting 1 connects you with a person you can barely understand who will want your Amazon info
I told them it was OK and when can I expect delivery?
They get really flustered.
Then ask them if their mother fed them with her left hand, and call them bhenchode. Hilarity ensues.
I receive these calls on my land line that is never used, one day I got 15 calls, answered once heard the recording and hung up. I get car warranty calls on my cell all the time I just block them.
Same here. Answering machine says ‘unavailable’, well so am I.
Never say the word ‘yes’ to anything! They record it and can use it.
No name on screen, I don’t answer. They can leave a voice mail and I check it right away.
I get a voicemail sometimes that sounds like it starts in the middle of a message and says “or press 5 to be removed from our list.”
I hang up.
Another one is that you are told that if you don’t reply within 24 hours, the police will come to your house and arrest you.
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