![]() ![]() ![]() Log in to your Amazon account immediately and click on Accounts & Lists, then go to Your Account, and then proceed to Login & Security. The following are 6 things you must do immediately if someone has hacked your Amazon account. These and a host of other factors can make you pay Amazon without your knowledge. Not following the instructions when you have borrowed from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library can have you charged unknowingly for using a free book. It would be helpful if you look through the settings located in the "Manage Your Content and Devices" section in your account. MP3's you may have tried that shows original audio series could pull an unknown payment, along with a video purchase for music movies tv shows and more. A pre-ordered book to enjoy audio series and kindle can result in an authorized charge as well, or if you want to avail of movies TV shows original, you can be charged without notice for your Amazon TV subscription. It could happen if you have downloaded a game, or other software such as Microsoft Office, PhotoShop, or Turbo Tax, among others. There are other potential reasons for unknown charges on your credit card from Amazon. If you tried using the Hulu app through Amazon, you might also have activated the auto renewal feature for the subscription service. If you have downloaded the Hulu app, you will be charged of $8.75, normally after its trial period has expired. ![]() If you wish to opt out of this service to steer clear of the charges, you can go to the "Manage Your Prime Membership" page and cancel your Amazon Prime subscription. However, after this, you will be charged an annual membership that costs $99.00. Initially, you will enjoy a free trial period for subscribing to Amazon Prime. Your subscription to the Kindle unlimited service will entail a $9.99 Amazon digital services charge. If it is for the use of up to 4 kids, there would be monthly charges of $6.99 for access to your preferred series and kindle books. Resist the temptation to vent your anger.If you are an Amazon Prime member, the monthly fee is typically a recurring charge if you have subscribed to the Kindle Free Time service, if intended for one child. Even if you want to tell the scammer where to stick his message, all you’ll be doing is confirming that your email address is active and making it more likely you’ll get even more spam. The links in such emails are also uniquely linked to your email address - by clicking on any of them, you’re confirming your email address is active and that will likely make it a bigger target for future scams. a fake Amazon support form), or a site that installs malware. The links in these emails may take you to a site that is harvesting personal details (ie. Second, you’ll be confirming your telephone number is vulnerable to such fraud, which means you can expect a vast increase in scam calls in future. First, it could be a premium-line scam that means the call will cost you lots of money. Even if you’re sure it’s a fake and are ringing out of curiosity or to give them a piece of your mind, you’re making a big mistake. What you should NEVER do with these emails ![]() Bingo! Your identity has just been stolen and now there’s every chance your credit card will be used for fraud. The scammers are hoping you’ll ring that number to cancel the order, at which point they will probably ask for personal details such as your name, address and credit card number “for security reasons”. That’s not a genuine Amazon line - if you Google the telephone number, you’ll find others reporting it’s a fraud. That’s where the telephone number comes into play. The scammers are hoping you’ll spring into action to cancel the order. The goal of the email is to instill panic - someone’s ordered an expensive iPhone on your account and they’re having it delivered to a different address. In this case, the order confirmation was for a new iPhone. Why bother sending these emails, you may wonder? What are they hoping to achieve? All of these signs combined are confirmation that this email is not genuine. It has no street name, for starters.Įlsewhere in the email there are typos that Amazon wouldn’t let slip through. The address the package is supposed to be sent to is clearly wrong. The “Call our Toll-Free” line just cuts off, for example, and then rolls into another line prompting you to call a number (we’ll come back to that shortly). In the email above, for example, there are clear errors that genuine Amazon emails wouldn’t make. ![]()
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