AMAZON SCAM E-MAIL

[Walkingthedog]

You don’t get spam calls with pigeons. Or perhaps his butler answers the phone and doesn’t tell him it’s a spam call.

[IanS]

You don’t get spam calls with pigeons. Or perhaps his butler answers the phone and doesn’t tell him it’s a spam call.

You don't get SPAM e-mails either. Don't give out your e-mail address to anyone and you get no spam!

Or if you're lucky like me and can have an unlimited set of email address give out a different one each time - but you need to remember to eventually check them!

[Walkingthedog]

Surely if you don’t give your email address to anyone there is no point in having one.

[IanS]

I've a friend who has one, but never uses or checks it. I've another who has one but refuses to give it out to stores such as B&Q when they ask.

I do agree, both of these friends may as well not have one but if you wish to visit certain sites (and forums) you need an address just to log in or view.

[Ron S]

And with auto systems, one can still get e-mails even if you don't tell anyone. Computers can generate addresses and send them & if they don't bounce because the address doesn't exist, it goes to someone e-mail inbox.

[Walkingthedog]

Most of the phone calls are started with a random number generator.

[Mr Bones]

There used to be a thing with gmail years ago (not sure if it's still valid) where you could add a + sign into your address. The address was still valid, but if you started getting spam you could identify who had sold your address or been hacked.

For example if I had joebloggs@gmail.com I could add joebloggs+amazon@gmail.com This gave you the ability to have original addresses for each site.

As I say, I'm not sure if this is still a thing or not and I have to admit I never tried it.

[Puddles]

Most of the phone calls are started with a random number generator.

I wish the random number selection generator was linked to my premium bonds I would be a millionaire by now.

[Mr Bones]

Had a scam phone call from Amazon two days ago saying about them changing my Prime membership to £39.99 a month, press 1 for more details - Ended the call immediately.
Had a call this evening saying a power cut in our postcode had been linked to our phone number, press 1 for more details - Ended the call immediately.
5 minutes later the power went off That'll teach me to assume the worst.

[Walkingthedog]

I get at least one of those Amazon calls every morning. Prerecorded american female voice. From a different number every time because I always block them.