There's nothing you can do about it."ĪBC13 reached out to Amazon for a response on the situation, and the company said it would look into what happened. "I let him in my phone, and the next thing you know, he took all my money in my account," he said.
The message says there’s something wrong with your account. In one version of the scam, you get a call and a recorded message that says it’s Amazon. Here’s what you need to know about these calls. SEE RELATED STORY: Thieves steal thousands from couple's bank accounts: 'Ha, ha you are the victim of ransomware' If you get a call from Amazon customer service or other tech support and a person told you that you need to download Anydesk app on your phone - don’t do tha. Scammers are calling people and using the names of two companies everyone knows, Apple and Amazon, to rip people off. Mesfen soon received an alert for a low balance in his bank account. "Kevin" instructed Mesfen to download two apps, AnyDesk, a remote desktop application, and Strike, a payment app. "He even said, 'Kevin from Amazon,'" Mesfen said. He could not find a number for Amazon in his app, so he went to a search engine and found what he thought was Amazon's customer service number. Mesfen went to pick up packages from an Amazon Hub Locker in southwest Houston when he ran into an issue he said he needed assistance with. So i am very aware what I did was dumb but hey, now i know better.
On April 1, Bemenet Mesfen attempted to make his first delivery for Amazon Flex. A remote access scam based on a real-life CommBank case study 62-year-old Susy received an urgent call from Tim, who said he was from the security department of her telephone company. Instead, he said he wound up having $3,500 drained from his bank account by a scammer. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) - In an attempt to earn additional income for his family of three, a Houston man recently signed up for a program that gives people a chance to deliver packages for Amazon using their own vehicle.
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He thought he was being proactive and resourceful during his side gig, but a Houston-area Amazon Flex driver unknowingly let a scammer into his phone when all he needed was help from the company.
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