Beware the Amazon Prime Scam !

We had a call like this today, 2 days after putting in one of our rare Amazon orders. It was a recorded voice, not a real person and I just hung up. They could have got our phone number from the book, I suppose, as we are still in it.

This sort of thing is a reason why we don't use a credit card when we do order from them, but buy vouchers from the supermarket. The less information they have about us the better!

We have had those Amazon calls. I just put the phone down. Also we get e-mail saying that someone in Lancashire has been trying to access our account. We just delete those after checking our account. As someone said, always a few days after buying something?

No calls re Amazon but two recent calls this week from Bolton claiming we owe HMRC money and if not paid, we will be arrested. Yet another scam I ignored.

We have had those calls but only just after placing orders with Amazon. Seems suspicious to us.

We are also both waiting for a knock on the door to arrest us because we didn't 'press 1' when HMRC rang and told us we owe money.

We believe there can be inside information with some of these. How come that when we left TalkTalk the frequent calls about it stopped.

I'm not kidding but the chap who rang me was so persistent that I hung up and blow me he rang again using a different number ! I was fuming with him. The prefix of the first call was 01113. It was India.

It seemed I inadvertently signed up monthly when I started having more things delivered during lockdown, I decided to let to my membership drift on as I'd started viewing various stuff they have on offer. Previously I'd done the same thing, free month's trial, but cancelled, I think I Googled how to do that and followed the instructions. I believe they offer "Audible" on the same free month's trial basis, so again you need to be quick on the up take and cancel that before that free period expires otherwise that's another £7.99.

I'd regard any calls regarding my membership charges as a scam. I think it's a good thing to post about such experiences to alert others.

I've had these calls and just hang up. Nothing has been taken from my account and my subscription isn't due until December.

thank you for warning people.
i don't use any of these services because i don't like dealing with things i can't understand. i rather have inconvenience than worry, uncertainty, risk beyond my ken.

Considering we were already subscribing £7.99 monthly to Amazon just to get through emergency needs in the lockdown period, I was still getting the very same calls, stating they were about to take £79 for an annual subscription to Amazon Prime.
It drove me bonkers so we've now cancelled altogether. Their prices are often uncompetetive so you end up paying postage either way, Prime or not.

I have had this call three times after the first one I just hang up

I just hang up.

On another note though amazon prime is a nightmare to cancel, purposely I reckon. I also found out I’d paid for three months subscription to Audible unbeknownst to me.