Scam Type
Other Scam
Business Name Used
Acting as Amazon
Date Reported
Sep 13, 2022
Victim Postal Code
55350
Total Dollars Lost
774
Scam Description
My sister in law was contacted by someone representing Amazon saying her account was hacked and that someone charged $1000 in her account. In order to stop these hackers and get her money back she was instructed to purchase a Target gift card and a Walgreens gift card and then contact Nakiel from Amazon and give him the information from the gift cards
He told her she went from 274 hackers to 76 and her next step was to update her phone to an Android.
She provided her bank account information to obtain $1000 in a refund
Ironically she does not have an Amazon account.
She told us about it and we convinced her it was a scam to contact her bank and to not answer any more calls from this individual.
