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6
Mar
2022
Thursday March 3, 2022
Dear Mr. Amazon Prime,
Thank you so much for looking after the best interests of your customers. The other morning, before I was even out of bed, one of your Customer Service Representatives called to inform me that they had detected suspicious activity on one of my credit cards.
Someone in Dayton Ohio had used my credit card to make a purchase of $197.33.
I asked her to wait a minute, while I checked my wallet. Both of my credit cards were safely there. But when I got back to the phone, she had hung up on me.
That wasn’t very courteous of her.
Categories: Soft Edges
Tags: scams, Amazon, Prime, robocalls, spam
16
Sep
2018
The scammers are getting smarter.
We’ve all received those emails that tell us there is $27 million waiting for us in an unclaimed Nigerian bank account, haven’t we?
One arrived the other day, from “Miss Vivian Ibrahim Coulibaly, only child of my late father, Late Chief Sgt. Warlord Ibrahim Coulibaly…” Miss Vivian needs my help, because her wicked stepmother – of course! – is trying to swindle her out of her father’s illegitimately acquired fortune.
The same day, I received a second email that assumed I had fallen for scams like Miss Vivian’s, headed FRAUD ALERT: “This letter is to notify you about your compensation as one of the scammed victims…”
Categories: Sharp Edges
Tags: scams, Nigeria, Fedex, Shoppers Drug Mart, World Bank, IMF