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  2. Customers confused Amazon scam warning email for an ... - AOL

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    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.

  3. Amazon customers report false email confirmations for gift ...

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    The faulty Amazon emails also contained a paragraph warning users against gift card scams: “There are a variety of scams in which fraudsters try to trick others into paying with gift cards from ...

  4. BBB Consumer Alert: Gift card scams - AOL

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    Here’s how the gift card scam works: Scammers tamper with gift cards in stores using handheld scanners to capture card information, then periodically check the balance by calling the retailer ...

  5. Gift card scams 2023: What to know about 'card draining' and ...

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    Use your gift card and gift card store receipt for these next steps if you have already given someone a gift card number: Report the gift card scam to the gift card company right away. No matter ...

  6. Overpayment scam - Wikipedia

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    An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith.In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money.

  7. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

  8. This Knoxville woman lost her life savings of $19,000 after ...

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    Amazon will also never ask you to buy gift cards to resolve an account issue, and it certainly won’t insist that you send Bitcoin. Unfortunately, scams involving crypto are all too common.

  9. This Is What an Amazon Email Scam Looks Like - AOL

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    “An Amazon email scam can look exactly like a real Amazon email, or can be poorly crafted, and everything in between,” according to Alex Hamerstone, a director with the security-consulting ...