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I got a text (SMS) message yesterday pretending to be from Amazon and warning that my account was going to be closed in 24 hours if I didn't respond immediately. The 'reason' given was 'suspicious activity involving Firefox'.

Didn't waste a lot of time worrying about it - just forwarded it to my ISP's spam monitoring account.

It used to be phone calls and e-mails, but now its SMS messages. And another route for this stuff is messages forwarded within a voice mail system. One of the worst offenders for that approach is AT&T. I've lost track of the number of times I've called AT&T (my wireless provider) to complain about unwanted marketing messages from their Direct TV subsidiary - they promise to make the calls stop, but they keep coming

UPDATE: Got a similar text three days later. This time, I did a quick search and found that there is an Amazon address that you can reach out to about bogus phone calls and e-mails. They don't respond to individual cases, but claim to appreciate details of specific cases that they can use to pursue solutions.