Amazon Sends out Warning: Watch out for Recent Scam Tactics

Amazon this week sent out an alert to its customers to avoid recent scam tactics that are targeting Prime members.
Amazon Sends out Warning: Watch out for Recent Scam Tactics
Amazon.com packages await shipment at the Indianapolis Mail Processing Annex in Indianapolis on Dec. 15, 2014. Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images
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Amazon this week sent out an alert to its customers to avoid recent scam tactics that are targeting Prime members.

“Amazon will never ask you to provide payment information for products or services over the phone,” the company said in an emailed statement, adding that it further will “never ask you to disclose your password or verify sensitive personal information over the phone or on any website other than Amazon.com.”

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