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As Melanie Anderson recovered from brain surgery, she relied on Amazon for her household essentials because she couldn't go to the store. Now, she's out more than $81,000 after she said she was conned by a man who claimed to be from Amazon.
The Better Business Bureau is issuing a warning to Acadiana residents again.
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The West Bloomfield Police Department issued a scam alert over the weekend about people posing as Amazon employees and requesting payments or fees to keep accounts active.
We are aware that every day there comes a new scam on social media. A message that could be about job recruitment or a gift card from Amazon or something else, social media especially WhatsApp is where this stuff circulate easily. Every day there comes a new scam on WhatsApp. This chatting app is vulnerable to scams. Many links and other messages are shared here which misleads
"They made me scared," said the woman, who asked that her identity not be revealed. It started when she got an email, which appeared to be from Amazon that claimed she bought a $1,800 laptop and a $3,500 camera. The email said that if she didn't order that, she should call immediately. When she called the number provided in the email, a man claiming to be with the Amazon fraud department told her if she didn't do as he asked, the fraudulent activity would continue. "These scammers are going to come and ruin you, get into your pension and they're going to get into your savings," she recalled t...