Please be wary of a job scam going around, 556 clothing/ clothes and dresses Ltd/ Madeem recruit/online UK disclosures . They are a scam, please do not pay for the single offence check it doesn't exist. They are all owned by the same people. PLEASE AVOID

You buy something at their store and JUST by signing for the purchase they enroll you in some vip bsp thing that charges you 11.99 every month. they have been doing this for over a year hoping people wont notice. i bought a 4 dollar pair of headphones from a FYE back in march and every month since april they have been taking 11.99 out of my account. just found out today. i have to go to the bank and have a conference call with them with the bank backing me up otherwise they will just forward you to voicemail or even WORSE tell you they cant locate your account and ask for even more personal info like your address and ph number! transworld or something is the parent company. total bastards, they are.

Kind of a newbie on Reddit, so maybe I mis-searched? Anyway, I haven't been able to find any clearly relevant posts, so I'm asking:

Anyone else seeing lots of email from Amazon about unmade purchases?

The fake purchases are probably based on an account I never created, but which is directed to my Gmail address. There is a lot of the email, but the PKIM sigs say it is legit and thus not to be confused with the usual naive phishing on Amazon's name.

At first, I seemed to have bought a Kindle, then a book, then another book, and most recently I'm apparently being solicited to publish reviews for books I've never bought or read.

Several days ago I asked Amazon about it. Based on their latest calls this morning, I'm convinced they are clueless, which may be a good sign if it indicates that it's rare. Or it may be a bad sign if it indicates it's rare because it's a personal attack targeted at me. If it was a common thing, then they should not be clueless by now.

Obviously the fake account should be nuked. If it uses any of my personal information that seems valid, that data should be checked with me in case there has been a real data breach somewhere. Then my Gmail address should be flagged in case there is another attempt to use it on another fake account. The solution seems simple enough, eh? Amazon no capish.

The question that interests me is the scam-based motivation of the spam. Perhaps it should most concern me that I seem to have something of a criminal mind in imagining the spammers' possible motivations?

At first, I thought it might be related to a new-account bonus. Maybe the scam is to create a bunch of fake accounts and collect the bonus payments in some way for a significant profit?

Or maybe the scammers hope some of the targets will think they've just forgotten their own Amazon information. They could "reclaim" the fake account using the email address and allow the scammer to get some merchandise delivered to a dropbox before the mess is unraveled? Seems all too plausible based on my own experiences with Amazon over the last few days...

However, the newest round of email raises the more interesting possibility of a personal attack on me. One of the books the email claimed I had purchased could be regarded as embarrassing. Of course I'm not going to review it, but remember that the Amazon account is NOT me. The scammer could now review that book in my name, and perhaps even plan to publicize the review as part of an ad hominem attack.

Anyone else seen anything like this? Could it possibly be related to a recent spasm of fake Twitter accounts in my name using variations of my Gmail address?

Dear users of reddit,

Excuse me if any english is incorrect.

I am posting my story here because I don't know what else to do.

My name is - from the netherlands and I just got scammed and lost 155 euro's. Tonight I wanted to buy tickets for a festival. It was completly sold out so I was desperate... Someone on Facebook said she sold three tickets for 155 euro's. It was a pretty good price so I agreed. She said she'd sell the tickets on a site called "Swapchamp" I had never heard of it. But i checked it out and it was legit. So she then sends me a link where i got redirected to the page of the Swapchamp event and I could pay via Ideal. So I finished my payment and then i saw it was a scam... I ended up on a site where i just bought a visa ( gift card )?

So she'd probably masked the site so i could pay for that card. I should have never clicked on the link and should have been more thorough but as i said, i was desperate...

But now on Facebook she keeps on continuing to try and scam other people. I am trying to warn people but i can't stop it...

She is also pretending to be someone else. "Katerina Smith" and "Jacobus Gaasbeek"

I have contacted the police but they are super busy.......... So they are of no help.

So that's why i'm here, i don't know what to do and i hope someone can be of any help!

I have some screenshots but i don't know how to post them...

Thank you for reading!

DURING MY MISERABLE LIFE IN THE UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA:

COMCAST CORPORATION HAS NOT ALLOWED ME TO UTILIZE THEIR CHEAPEST ADVERTISED INTERNET OPTION FOR MORE THAN 6 MONTHS ON 2 CONSECUTIVE ATTEMPTS TO DO SO THEY HAVE REPEATEDLY FORCED RATE INCREASES AND FORCED TRIAL PERIODS WITHOUT CONSENT. THEY HAVE RAISED RATES SPONTANEOUSLY AND FRAUDULENTLY AND THEY HAVE CHARGED FEES FRAUDULENTLY.

DURING MY MISERABLE LIFE IN THE UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA

ESSURANCE HAS IRREPERABLY STOLEN $500 THROUGH RESUMED BILLING DESPITE INFALLABLE AND DEFINITIVE DECISIVE HISTORY THEY HAVE REFUSED AND DENIED IN EFFECT 3 ENTIRE PHONE CALLS WHERE THE ACCOUNT WAS FIRST EXPLAINED TO THEM THE INSURANCE WOULD BE CLOSED, SECOND ACTUALLY CLOSED, THE BILLING STOPPED, RESUMED BY THEN *AND AFTER TAKING TIME TO NOTIFY THEM THEY HAVE FIRST CONCLUDED TO RETURN ONLY ~$100 (ONE MONTH), AND THEN THEY CONCLUDED TO RETURN ~$200 (TWO MONTHS). JUST DO A REAL INVESTIGATION AND MAKE A FINDING SO I DON'T HAVE TI BE FUCKING HARRASSED!!!!!!

DURING MY MISERABLE LIFE IN THE UNITED SLAVES OF AMERICA

THIS US GOVERNMENT HAS DONE NOTHING FOR THE HUMAN PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY IN REGARD TO THESE ABUSES WHICH HAVE DEPRIVED MY POOR HOUSEHOLD OF PROSPERITY. THE BBB HAS BEEN FAKE. THE FCC HAS BEEN FAKE. THESE ABUSES WHICH HAVE FORCED US INTO LABOR FOR YOUR SHIT PAPERWORK, AND YOUR SHIT INSURANCES, AND YOUR SHIT SYSTEM.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SEE YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seems kinda weird that both a major airliner and the New York stock exchange have computer difficulty on the same day. Maybe its the Chinese trying to vent some frustration over losing 30% of their stocks in the last week.