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If you believe you are the victim of an Amazon email scam, “the first thing to do is log into your Amazon account, change the password, and turn on dual-factor authentication,” Pierson says.
An email from Amazon warning customers to be careful of a possible gift card scam went awry when customers reported that they worried the legitimate company message might have been, itself, a scam.
As of 2020, it is the most common type of cybercrime, with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reporting more incidents of phishing than any other type of cybercrime. [ 3 ] The term "phishing" was first recorded in 1995 in the cracking toolkit AOHell , but may have been used earlier in the hacker magazine 2600 .
"Neither myself, my team, my agent, nor my family will ever contact you on my behalf asking for money or your personal information," he said
The preferred method of payment in a technical support scam is via gift cards. [41] Gift cards are favoured by scammers because they are readily available to buy and have less consumer protections in place that could allow the victim to reclaim their money back.
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