Kerry Hansen wrote:
Yesterday I got a very brief email supposedly from someone I knew in a club I used to belong too. The email asked a simple question, "Do you have an Amazon account"?
Right off I knew it was a scam so I replied, "Where do I know you from?" Which I knew I would not get an answer and I didn't. I also knew it was a scam because a month and a half ago my wife got the same request supposedly from someone in a club she belongs too.
After she said, No but my husband does, here came the request. This supposed acquaintance said she was having a little problem with her credit card and the bank that it would take a couple of days to resolve and she needed to buy a birthday gift NOW for a third person that my wife also knew whose Birthday was supposedly tomorrow and she wanted to get that gift to her before her birthday. My wife tried to call the REAL person that was asking for the favor but was not able to talk to her. However we declined to do it. What she/he had asked for was for me to buy a $150 gift card from Amazon and send it to this third person. Sometime after we turned down the request (which sounded real good and true) my wife was able to contact the real people she she knew and confirmed that it all was a scam!
So after I got the request that I showed on the first line of this thread I sent an email to an acquaintance who I knew the last time I belonged to that organization who was the president then, where I and the person whose name was used were members and I told her she needed to warn the other members. She answered back and said it was too late since she fell for it and now had lost $150 an found out yesterday she had bought a refrigerator, but she was lucky that she had already canceled her Credit card.
Here is a piece of advice that my Daughter recommended to me and that only took minutes to do to protect me from BIG purchases like a car, house Refrigerator or something big that YOUR credit card agency will check with (one of the three big credit agencies). You need to freeze your credit which only takes minutes. You go to the three big credit agencies who you see advertising all the time on how to improve your "CREDIT SCORE". Then if you need to buy something "Big" you unfreeze your credit for a short window that your credit union or some other place can check during that window, then you freeze it again so you cannot be hurt! This is very serious so I advise you to stop these bad &%#$@& people! They are working very hard to take your money or house, Fore Warned is Fore Armed. You don't want to say sometime later, "GEESE I WISH I HAD DONE SOMETHING. It is too late to close the barn door after the livestock has got out!
Yesterday I got a very brief email supposedly from... (
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I froze mine last year after my identity was stolen and was used to receive a credit card but we caught it before they were able to use it. Their slick and sometimes very convincing. My advice is always beware of who you are doing business with...🐟on