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Trying to figure out if somebody was trying to scam me and/or if anybody else has run into this.
So, a guy comes into the restaurant yesterday. Says they are trying to get small businesses converted over Business Prime for extra savings.
Can't remember if he says he was with Amazon or a third party (if legit, it would have been a third party, I assume)
So, he's asking if we order supplies from Amazon, do I have a business Amazon account, do I have Prime on my personal account, etc.
I'm not sure if I've converted/merged to Business Prime. He asks me to open the app on my phone. I should have ended this there, but I did.
I open the app. Login info saved and dotted out, though I opened it without him seeing (I couldn't remember if the password was saved/dotted out).
He asks if he can check my account to see if we have business prime. He goes into the account section I'm watching closely. Doesn't go into any sensitive areas. About 4 clicks. Best I can tell, he didn't see anything I wouldn't have wanted him to see. My email address, which I don't terribly love, but not too big of a deal.
Anyway, we get to the thing, and for some reason it won't merge or whatever.
We end it there. He says I can try it on my own on a desktop.
Obviously, it seemed sketchy, and after work I checked around the Google machine.
Not much popping up. Most scams involving Amazon are text, call or email. Nothing about an in-person business prime scam.
Only info was one reddit thread describing this exact scenario. One person started, and then a bunch that experienced the same thing.
But in all of their versions, they were able to do the business prime merger/conversion thing.
And then the person asked them to make a small purchase to make sure it worked. And when they did that, the person would ask to take a picture of the order confirmation.
Of course it all sounds shady as hell, but nobody has said there were any adverse affects.
From some of the responses, apparently Amazon can help you recover your password with details of your order history. Getting an order history to take over an account was the only speculated angle here if it is a scam.
So, it seems shady, but still can't confirm that there's a scam.
And of course, with the ease of text/email/call scams, an in-person scam better have a big payoff, and I just can't figure out what it would be. Especially for businesses where you are likely on camera.
I did change my Amazon password for farts and giggles, and the only card attached to my account is a credit card.
Have any of ya'll ever run into this?
So, a guy comes into the restaurant yesterday. Says they are trying to get small businesses converted over Business Prime for extra savings.
Can't remember if he says he was with Amazon or a third party (if legit, it would have been a third party, I assume)
So, he's asking if we order supplies from Amazon, do I have a business Amazon account, do I have Prime on my personal account, etc.
I'm not sure if I've converted/merged to Business Prime. He asks me to open the app on my phone. I should have ended this there, but I did.
I open the app. Login info saved and dotted out, though I opened it without him seeing (I couldn't remember if the password was saved/dotted out).
He asks if he can check my account to see if we have business prime. He goes into the account section I'm watching closely. Doesn't go into any sensitive areas. About 4 clicks. Best I can tell, he didn't see anything I wouldn't have wanted him to see. My email address, which I don't terribly love, but not too big of a deal.
Anyway, we get to the thing, and for some reason it won't merge or whatever.
We end it there. He says I can try it on my own on a desktop.
Obviously, it seemed sketchy, and after work I checked around the Google machine.
Not much popping up. Most scams involving Amazon are text, call or email. Nothing about an in-person business prime scam.
Only info was one reddit thread describing this exact scenario. One person started, and then a bunch that experienced the same thing.
But in all of their versions, they were able to do the business prime merger/conversion thing.
And then the person asked them to make a small purchase to make sure it worked. And when they did that, the person would ask to take a picture of the order confirmation.
Of course it all sounds shady as hell, but nobody has said there were any adverse affects.
From some of the responses, apparently Amazon can help you recover your password with details of your order history. Getting an order history to take over an account was the only speculated angle here if it is a scam.
So, it seems shady, but still can't confirm that there's a scam.
And of course, with the ease of text/email/call scams, an in-person scam better have a big payoff, and I just can't figure out what it would be. Especially for businesses where you are likely on camera.
I did change my Amazon password for farts and giggles, and the only card attached to my account is a credit card.
Have any of ya'll ever run into this?
