08-03-2017, 12:16 PM | #1 |
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Second Amazon account?
Here's a weird Amazon story for you.
In the past four months I've had three things come from Amazon that I didn't order with no other info coming with them. No one else in the family admitted to ordering them. This morning I decided to call Amazon and see if they could give me a clue where these items came from. I gave the guy the tracking information from the package from yesterday, and this is where it got weird. He said it was from me. I said no way. He asked if I had another Amazon account, to which I said no, asked if I had other email addresses (hah! doesn't everyone?), and said there was another Amazon account with my name, address, email address beginning with the letter "x" at yahoo.com (not one of my many email addresses). There is no phone number with the account. Said account does not have any of my credit cards on it, was created in June of 2016, and has made 18 purchases, all from gift cards, that have been sent to various addresses in the US, which included four to me, the first one was from last June, something I didn't remember even getting! I asked CS how I could go about getting this account deleted and was told it couldn't be done. He eventually sent me to a supervisor who gave me the same run around, but said the two step-authentication I already have enabled is the best thing I could do, as not even CS can access my account without a code I give them. If some strange person is going to use my name and send me things, can't they at least send me something I'll use?!?! |
08-03-2017, 12:39 PM | #2 |
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Report it to the police. It's indentity theft. Check your credit see if any accounts have been created in your name. Subscribe to a credit monitoring service or something like Life Lock.
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08-03-2017, 12:46 PM | #3 |
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Already belong to a credit monitoring service and there's been no unusual activity. Didn't think of reporting it to the local authorities.
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It was a very easy form to fill out. Made me feel better at least!
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The April package was lingerie... hubby thought I had a secret admirer. It was a one size fits all stretchy net sorta thing. The June package was a bike mount for a device like a Go Pro. I thought maybe my son or his girlfriend somehow ordered it for him and it ended up on my account. Yesterday's was a grill mat... we're probably one of the few people on our street without an outside grill (I use an electric George Foreman grill). Last edited by copyrite; 08-03-2017 at 03:10 PM. |
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Oh I never thought of using them in the oven! The really really fine print on the box does mention that! There were three mats in the box.
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