A while ago I posted about fraudulent listings on eBay.
I never thought I would be posting about Amazon too.
I've had a couple of incidents in the past two weeks. I had an order cancelled a day after it was due to be delivered. The seller apologised but said that their account was hacked and had 3000 bogus items listed on their seller account. As far as I know I didnt lose any money or personal details.
Today I came across another scam on Amazon. Basically its the same one which has been chugging along on eBay for a good while now. Bogus sellers asking for personal details of one kind or another.
So if you were like me and thought Amazon was 100% safe, well it's not. I contacted Amazon and they were reluctant to admit a sellers account was hacked but they did later in the conversation apologise for the hack. They also thanked me for reporting todays incident but didn't seem to be interested in seeing the offending email!
I'm sure its still totally safe to use the normal Amazon shopping system, just be careful of any direct interaction with sellers and dont assume they are all 100% honest.
I never thought I would be posting about Amazon too.
I've had a couple of incidents in the past two weeks. I had an order cancelled a day after it was due to be delivered. The seller apologised but said that their account was hacked and had 3000 bogus items listed on their seller account. As far as I know I didnt lose any money or personal details.
Today I came across another scam on Amazon. Basically its the same one which has been chugging along on eBay for a good while now. Bogus sellers asking for personal details of one kind or another.
So if you were like me and thought Amazon was 100% safe, well it's not. I contacted Amazon and they were reluctant to admit a sellers account was hacked but they did later in the conversation apologise for the hack. They also thanked me for reporting todays incident but didn't seem to be interested in seeing the offending email!
I'm sure its still totally safe to use the normal Amazon shopping system, just be careful of any direct interaction with sellers and dont assume they are all 100% honest.