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HACKING ATTEMPT
October 20, 2021
This has nothing to do with Leaky Foundations
Amazon Hacking Scam: I just had someone pretend to be Amazon to get access to my pc. I received a text saying "Your request to process the order #190134 is approved. $563.74 will be charged from your account. Call ** Security on 18667790412 for cancellation.
Looked like it could be legit. When I called, I was told I was talking to Amazon Security. They said someone from Ohio & Pennsylvania had taken control of my account. They asked me to download Anydesk, a remote software, so they could look at my pc to verify security.
This is when it got interesting. I asked them how I could be sure they were, in fact, Amazon. I told them that if they were Amazon, and based on the order number, they should be able to give me the order number for the items I received on Monday. They gave me a search to put in Google: Operations Security 1681927. I put it in, and it went to a job listing for Amazon. They claimed that that showed their Amazon security credentials. I told them it did not satisfy me. I continued to ask them for the order number of my most recent shipment. He transferred me to his "supervisor." He went through the same routine, getting madder & madder. He gave me the same Google search to do, he said the charge would be made in 5 minutes if I didn't download Anydesk & give them access. I continued to ask for my previous order number, which they couldn't provide. I told them I would take whatever actions necessary to block the charge, and they told me I couldn't do anything to prevent it! They finally hung up.
By the way, Amazon orders are in this format: xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx. 3 digits, 7 digits, 7 more digits, separated by dashes. So they are not sophisticated enough to even imitate Amazon's order number format in the original text. Maybe they'll get better, though.
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