{"id":17344,"date":"2025-11-07T19:52:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/?page_id=17344"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:53:36","slug":"simple-tips-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/home-2\/thats-interesting\/simple-tips-from-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Tips from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17344?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 32px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 32\/32;\" \/><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Safety Tips from Amazon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17345 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/150;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the busy shopping season approaches, stay informed with these tips to help recognize impersonation scams &#8211; when a scammer pretends to be a trusted company and reaches out to try to get access to sensitive information like personal or financial information, or Amazon account details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Tips to help stay safe:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don\u2019t shop from an ad. Always use the store mobile app or website for all your shopping needs, including customer service, account changes, delivery tracking, and refund status.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Remember, websites like Amazon will never ask you to make payments or to provide payment information (including gift cards or wire transfers) for products or services over the phone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Consider setting up 2-step verification when available to your online accounts to help prevent unauthorized account access.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scammers might try to create a sense of urgency to persuade you to do what they&#8217;re asking. Be careful any time someone tries to convince you that you must act now.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Example impersonation scam tactics that you could receive:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fake messages claiming to be about delivery or account issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Third-party social media posts and ads with deals that seem too good to be true. Shop directly on a website or mobile app for authentic offers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Messages through unofficial channels asking for your password or payment information.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unfamiliar links asking you to verify your account credentials through fake or phishing websites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unsolicited phone calls claiming to be from tech support or other agencies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety Tips from Amazon As the busy shopping season approaches, stay informed with these tips to help recognize impersonation scams &#8211; when a scammer pretends to be a trusted company and reaches out to try to get access to sensitive information like personal or financial information, or Amazon account details. Tips to help stay safe:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17344\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}