My dad was fooled by a number on his new Fire Stick, a 1-800 number. It said he HAD to call them in order to get his Fire Stick working. Then, they tricked him by saying there was a "security breach" around his area, and convinced him that they needed his security information and all his credit card information. They had him buy $100s of Xbox cards as a "fake purchase", but he believed them due to the number being from an official Amazon device. We have gotten this sorted out already, but please be careful. This may have even been partially my fault, they mentioned something about uninstalling an old coin flipping app on my old phone, saying that might have been the cause of the security breach (?)... no clue what this had to do with anything, maybe I installed a phony app that requested a bunch of permissions I didn't realize at the time(?), anywho, please just be careful.
UPDATE: Apparently his Fire Stick lead him to an official Amazon website, it was just amazon.com/code, it had him enter his code on his Fire Stick, then it had him contact a fake phone number. He says it was all on the official website. Tomorrow I'll look at his computer search history to see if he entered the official website, or if he accidentally made a typo in typing in the URL.
Submitted March 31, 2021 at 09:49PM by dannydevitoslegs https://ift.tt/3cESXt5
